Post-pandemic, employers increasingly offer work location flexibility as an attraction and retention tool, which, experts say, can also help expand the talent pool’s diversity. However, such flexibility also presents a challenge for HR leaders, who are now tasked with helping all employees prosper in a distributed work environment where colleagues are spread across multiple time zones and locations. - Advertisement - Collaboration software provider Atlassian,  for example, has long relied on a distributed workforce, allowing employees to work from home, in one of its 12 global offices, at ..read more

The talent acquisition field has consistently been an early adopter of HR tech, using it “not as a crutch but as a catalyst,” according to Mercer researchers. The consulting firm also found that most HR departments use two or more platforms to facilitate the recruiting process. Meanwhile, new AI-driven solutions are hitting the market at a steady pace. The authors of a highly anticipated book geared toward recruiters and talent acquisition specialists sat down with HRE to discuss how HR leaders can capitalize on technology and digital capabilities for enterprise recruitment efforts. - Advertis ..read more

Nearly half of employers say they are dropping college degree requirements for some of their roles, and nearly three-quarters of organizations note they are moving to skills-based hiring. But despite these pronouncements, there has been little actual advancement in hiring candidates without a college degree, according to a new joint report by the Burning Glass Institute and Harvard Business School’s Managing the Future of Work Project. - Advertisement - According to the research, when employers drop a college degree requirement for a role, they only increase the number of non-degreed hires in ..read more

With skills-based hiring and internal mobility growing priorities for HR, talent acquisition teams are increasingly concerned with their organization’s learning and development opportunities. It’s a shift fueling a greater demand for stronger partnerships between TA and L&D teams. - Advertisement - In fact, nearly 85% of TA professionals expressed a desire for greater collaboration with L&D teams, according to a LinkedIn recruiting report released last week. Driving this interest is the 90% of executives across the globe who are leaning into skills-based hiring—both internally and ..read more

With the tight labor market constricting a tad further last month—and burnout among HR professionals already running high—HR leaders may be wishing they could tap reinforcements to help them attract talent. And in a way, they can, experts say. However, this isn’t a case of hiring additional team members or outsourcing some of the HR functions, but rather taking guidance from another department HR may not typically work closely with: marketing. - Advertisement - After all, creativity is at the heart of marketing professionals’ work, and HR may need to get creative in the coming months. January ..read more

Employers and HR leaders across nearly every industry this year have faced sweeping layoffs, vocal protests against return-to-office policies and employee angst—and excitement —about rapid advancements in artificial intelligence, particularly job-altering generative AI. - Advertisement - To help HR prepare for 2024 amid these persistent concerns, industry experts from McKinsey, Carnegie Mellon, WorldatWork and the Talent Board have identified seven trends in talent management—from EX to engagement, retention and the generational makeup of the workforce—that will shape the workplace in the year ..read more

No pay transparency, no candidate. - Advertisement - That’s the attitude of 44% of job applicants who, over the past 12 months, did not apply to positions because they lacked a salary range, according to a recent Gartner survey of nearly 3,500 job candidates. That figure may seem surprisingly high given lingering talk of a recession and the fact that a wide swath of companies have instituted layoffs affecting thousands of employees. But given the nation’s low unemployment rate and high demand for certain positions, like AI data engineers, job candidates are opting to remain selective. HR leade ..read more

Given ongoing turnover troubles, many employers have turned to a longtime retention strategy: giving employees more money. - Advertisement - It’s not a new approach. For instance, pre-pandemic, Salesforce trotted out annual bonuses that averaged $39,959, while Meta’s annual bonuses averaged $33,225 pre-pandemic. However, their average retention sits at only 23 and 25 months, respectively, according to a Paysa blog post. Given those attrition rates, it raises the question of whether monetary incentives really addressed the underlying cause of employee departures. “If you think about it, unless ..read more

Last week, the Human Resource Executive editorial team announced the Top 100 HR Tech Influencers for 2023. If you haven’t checked it out yet, now’s the time to become familiar with this group of leaders. Many of them will attend the HR Tech Conference this year and some will even be presenters. For those readers who aspire to earn a spot on the list in future years, note how the influencers aren’t one-title-fits-all. Plenty of unique skills and backgrounds are celebrated on this list. And speaking of skills. Alex Zea, HR transformation services leader at Mercer | Leapgen, recently told an onli ..read more

During the first half of the year, job applications around the world spiked 30% to 133 million, while the number of job requisitions fell 15% during the same period, according to a report released this week by Workday. That means many employers are enjoying a bountiful candidate pool. However, experts caution HR and recruiting professionals not to get complacent—because if macroeconomic conditions change, candidates may regain control of the market again. - Advertisement - Phil Willburn, vice president of people analytics at Workday, is keenly aware of the gap in supply and demand that could b ..read more