The Stockholm-based think tank Future Talent Council found that most organizations in its network intend to increase AI spending, making this a top-level budget item for many companies. However, the group, which includes employers, educators and policymakers from around the world, says that organizations still need to invest in leadership willing to understand the dynamics of artificial intelligence in the workplace. - Advertisement - Data from other organizations supports this philosophy. A 2023 survey of 1,500 managers and 1,500 employees by employee listening leader Perceptyx found that 24 ..read more

Like many of its members, WeightWatchers, as an organization, is working on a major transformation. The company is altering its business model and culture and seeking to achieve support and buy-in from its nearly 5,000 employees, Chief People Officer Tiffany Stevenson said recently during her keynote presentation at the Elevate People, Ignite Change conference in Las Vegas. - Advertisement - Last spring, WeightWatchers bought the company that operates a subscription telehealth platform named Sequence, expanding WeightWatchers’ behavioral weight loss support services in several ways, including ..read more

Building and improving company culture, especially in the era of hybrid work, ranks among HR professionals’ top two challenges, according to a recent HRE survey. And having the right culture can mean the difference between a high-performing company and a low-performing organization, experts say. To gain insight into culture practices, Human Resource Executive recently asked HR leaders and some CEOs about their most effective culture-building strategies. See what they had to say in this video from the recent Elevate People, Ignite Change (EPIC) conference. The post Building culture: HR leaders ..read more

The inaugural HR Technology Europe Conference and Expo kicked off in Amsterdam this week to a packed auditorium of HR practitioners eager to hear about what’s new in the rapidly changing realm of employee experience. - Advertisement - In the opening keynote, a panel conversation moderated by The Josh Bersin Co.’s Bo Derksen, global analyst Josh Bersin discussed the evolution and complexity of employee engagement and experience. He reminisced about the time, 15-20 years ago, when employee engagement primarily involved conducting surveys, analyzing the data and using it for corporate purposes. H ..read more

Xan Daniels has enjoyed a 20-year career at Alight Solutions (formerly part of Aon Hewitt), a cloud-based human capital technology and services provider. She’s the driving force behind this global organization’s diversity, equity and inclusion strategy, and her expertise has powered this dynamic company to attract, advance and retain diverse talent worldwide. - Advertisement - Before her current role, Daniels, one of this year’s HR’s Rising Stars, led Alight’s test management practice. She jokes that she believed she would retire as the “queen of testing,” but in 2020, her colleagues called on ..read more

Growing revenue, market share, profitability and customer satisfaction are the marks of a high-performing organization. But also add another trait—a healthy culture. - Advertisement - In fact, high-performing companies are nearly six times more likely to have fit cultures compared to low-performing organizations, said Kevin Oakes, co-founder and CEO of research firm i4cp, during a keynote last week at HRE’s Elevate People, Ignite Change (EPIC) Conference in Las Vegas. However, according to i4cp’s research, which included more than 7,000 business professionals across the globe, only 15% of empl ..read more

Are your rewards competitive, fair and clear enough to attract and retain top talent? Explore richer opportunities for rewarding and engaging talent throughout the entire employee lifecycle with a total reward approach. This holistic strategy covers both tangible rewards like pay and benefits and intangibles like growth and culture alignment. Learn more >> The post Total reward insight: A comprehensive guide for CHROs appeared first on HR Executive ..read more

The Federal Trade Commission recently announced a sweeping rule to ban noncompete agreements for all U.S. employees, with limited exceptions. This unprecedented move could reshape how HR leaders approach hiring and talent management processes.  In short, the FTC voted 3-2 along party lines last week that noncompetes are “an unfair method of competition” and, therefore, a violation of Section 5 of the FTC Act. The measure is scheduled to take effect this summer. FTC Chair Lina M. Khan “Noncompete clauses keep wages low, suppress new ideas and rob the American economy of dynamism, including ..read more

Laszlo Bock likely inspired countless business minds with his work at Google—including one of this year’s HR’s Rising Stars, Anthony Ormsbee-Hale, senior vice president of strategic operations at Civitas Senior Living. At the time, when Ormsbee-Hale stumbled upon a book by Bock in an airport bookstore about his work to innovate the tech giant’s people operations, he was in a sales and marketing role at the senior living management company. - Advertisement - “I had an operations background, and I loved the idea of being able to create organizational strategy and help support leaders,” he says ..read more

Analysts forecast that merger and acquisition (M&A) activity will rise in 2024. Major companies like Capital One and Discover, two of the largest credit card companies in the U.S., have already announced plans to merge, leaving the question of how company cultures will be impacted. - Advertisement - To achieve holistic success in a merger, company culture must be a foremost consideration. Nearly all executives (95%) agree that unifying company cultures is crucial for merger success, according to a McKinsey report. Despite this, culture is often overlooked when major companies undergo ..read more