HR Survey | Will HR survive or thrive in the Information Age?

The need for HR teams to upskill and reskill has never been greater. The profession is evolving, with the job descriptions of the future requiring a very different set of skills.

The question is, what must HR teams do to stay at the forefront of technological change? Take part in our global survey and share your views.

A decade ago, did we understand how the roles in HR would change due to the breakthroughs in technology? Back then, ‘analytics’ had replaced the word ‘metrics’ at conferences, yet the work by the Saratoga Institute and Jac Fitz-Enz was still largely considered the quintessential thinking in the field. Most people in HR had experience with an HRIS. Many will remember the move to adopt PeopleSoft or a similar large system, often adopted in conjunction with restructuring the HR department to the Target Operating Model, commonly attributed to Dave Ulrich. Had we been told then about the roles which appeared in the recent Cognizant report, such as Algorithm Bias Auditor, Chatbot & Human Facilitator and Gig Economy Manager, most of us would have thought them farfetched, we certainly would not have considered preparing ourselves for them.

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