It is a reality that the hybrid work model will grow this year because employees are seeking to hold on to the ‘positive’ effect of the pandemic, in terms of balancing home and work, capitalizing on flexibility in work schedules and hours, and even improving interaction in the workplace through various digital tools. Organizations must realize that as employees embrace the power of choice – something that occurred over the last two years in particular, they need to be more creative with the benefits and programmes they offer to win the war for talent. For instance, according to ‘The Great Real ..read more

What are the industry opportunities and challenges you need to be aware of? How can you generate more value for the organization? What will be non-negotiable for employees and the organizational strategy? Many Human Talent strategists put out these questions daily to us to get their 2022 strategy ready. As customary, at the beginning of the year, I love to share the trends we should have on our radar for taking on the complex, chaotic environment in which we live, where nothing is set in stone. Something has changed radically for 2022 in pandemic management. Unlike what has been happening in E ..read more

The Covid-19 pandemic has caused a paradigm shift in all areas, especially in the HR function, which has had to transform many of its working procedures and tools to adapt to the new uncertainty of work and to maintain business continuity. To understand the current complexity and to design the best strategies for the future, it is essential to thoroughly analyse the challenges and key elements of the changes that have taken place in recent months. In this article, we present the main pillars which, in our view form the basis of the new labour landscape. Resurgence of the Covid-19 pandemic If ..read more

First of all, I must say that reading this article and – let me hope – gaining some benefit from it will require three things: a high level of personal reflection, a capacity for self-criticism and, last but not least, a desire for making changes, one that must hold up through time as an act of an all-embracing personal willpower. Recruitment is probably the least objective of all the people management processes. Why is that? Because a decision of such importance and transcendence, both for the company and for the worker, is based on a series of first impressions and on a highly limited knowle ..read more

In this incredible era of transformation, HR cannot escape the challenges imposed on them by today’s world and with intense pressure to do it quickly. No matter the business sector, the country, the company size, clearly what worked before doesn’t work anymore today. We cannot play a new game with old rules. Just like it’s been happening in organizations on the whole; the People areas are immersed the challenge of change from a distinct perspective and deploying across the transformation spectrum, from the most conservative companies who modify just the odd transactional issue (for example, im ..read more

Employee engagement is the feeling of emotional attachment that employees have with their company, their level of personal involvement in the company’s success or the degree of enthusiasm they have while performing tasks. But how can this engagement be maintained in a remote work model? Here are three of the best practices that companies can implement to achieve this goal: Structure work. There is nothing worse than ambiguity. So, it’s crucial to define the rhythm of work, to make meaningful task assignments of the work to be done, or to further specify each person’s role if it is a team proj ..read more

In recent times and especially over the last decade, changes in the environment have accelerated dramatically. The drivers of these changes are factors such as technological advances, changes in customer preferences, regulatory changes, new emerging competitors or globalization. All of these have led to a transformation in the way many companies compete, that is to say in their business models. Thus, the design (or redesign) of the business model plays a key role in a company’s current and future success. Companies successfully developing a new business achieve on average 6% higher profitabili ..read more

The world of work has changed, remote working is here to stay. Before the pandemic, companies were reluctant for their employees to work from home in the belief that productivity could drop. Since then, they have realized that it’s not so; workers are equally or more productive and can reduce costs. For co-workers, the home office lets them manage their time, avoid long commuting hours and above all, spend more time with the family. Some prefer working from home, while for others, a combination with few days in the office is a better option, because the pandemic has led to people working more ..read more

Discover in this post our selection of some of the best articles related to the world of Human Resources for the month of November. 1.Will AI make HR professionals obsolete? In a time of rising wages, soaring job confidence soars, and job shortages, investing in this sort of technology will be of critical importance to HRDs and employers. By: Vivian Rook 2.3 Powerful Steps Leaders Can Take To Promote Collaboration In The Workplace If there’s one consistent thread in the debate over remote work, it’s how leaders who want their employees to return to the office argue that collaboration can’t occ ..read more

Operational excellence is aspiration shared by all companies and one of the most common sources of competitive edge in business literature. It has become even more relevant today as the capacity for growth is undermined by the socio-economic troubles we are undergoing. This “search for excellence” is also one of HR’s main concerns and that is why they are also currently immersed in improvement processes, especially since the circumstances now are testing the robustness of their processes. Considering all these aspects, the search for Operational Excellence (O.E.) entails developing the company ..read more