Today’s HR professionals have a lot to contend with: Recruitment and workforce planning, emerging technologies, the need for new skills and continuous upskilling, remote work—and the communication issues that come from a dispersed workforce.  On top of this, HR professionals have a whole new generation (hello, Gen Z!) to cater to with wholly different expectations of employers, approaches to work, and workplace values.  But the biggest shift of all is how HR teams have transformed from backstage admins to fundamental business decision-makers with a seat at the table in just a few yea ..read more

Global expansion brings exciting opportunities, not to mention more revenue.  It also brings a thicket of compliance laws and regulations to navigate through—and finding a way forward is about to become more difficult for many companies in 2024.  Upcoming Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) laws in Europe and the United Kingdom will require organizations to have thorough reporting measures in place to prove compliance. It’s essential for multi-national companies to stay on top of these laws to avoid risking fines ranging in the millions. While the thought of that might be eno ..read more

Modern companies are expanding globally.  While this means more business opportunities and more revenue, it also brings more regulations to comply with in every jurisdiction. But herein lies the issue: Multi-national compliance is complex and constantly changing. New laws crop up continuously. HR professionals and legal teams must be forever proactive to stay ahead and take action. This is one of the biggest reasons why compliance readiness is currently top-of-mind for HR and legal teams. It’s especially true as many companies prepare for brand new laws, such as the European Corporate Sus ..read more

When it comes to HR headaches, payroll is a top contender for the crown—and it only gets more complicated when you introduce mass scaling and global expansion. Pay and benefits differ drastically across regions, so multi-national companies often rely on a number of different payroll solutions to navigate the complexities of local taxes and comply with local compensation laws at each site.  Dealing with payroll at just one site is headache enough. But at multiple sites and counting?  That’s just downright stressful.  While payroll solutions that are specifically tailored to each ..read more

Imagine the scenario. Your business has decided it’s time to create company values. You’ve conducted a thorough process, involved a range of stakeholders, wordsmithed, edited, and refined. You’re confident the outcome captures your company’s DNA. Your values are ready to go. So what next?  In many ways, creating company values is the easy bit. It’s creative and engaging, especially when colleagues volunteer to get involved. Now, the real challenge starts: How can you truly integrate your values into the day-to-day at your company?  The process can be challenging, and integrating and ..read more

It should come as no surprise that recruiting is more complex than ever these days. From talent gaps, skills shortages, and ever-changing market conditions to cumbersome processes and siloed technology, HR and talent acquisition teams have their work cut out for them.  However, one challenge reigns supreme: disconnected processes and technology. In fact, according to the Lighthouse Research & Advisory 2024 Talent Acquisition Trends Study, 75 percent of teams struggle to forecast their needs accurately, and 58 percent of teams missed their hiring plan last year, putting their overall b ..read more

Think about how your day goes when there’s no internet.  Your email or Slack goes down, the project management system won’t load, or the HCM that everyone uses to clock in and out has a timeout.  The entire business feels the effects if anything breaks—or even if it just slows down a little.  But behind the scenes, HR Ops comes to the rescue.  As the backbone of organizations’ tech-reliant functionality, HR Ops’s collaboration with the IT and cybersecurity teams ensures uninterrupted service from the tech everyone relies on in today’s globally dispersed businesses.  Em ..read more

Modern companies have made huge strides to improve their people’s experiences and establish core values of transparency and fairness.  Buffer, the social media management company, openly shares its team’s salaries in a publicly accessible spreadsheet. Salesforce publicly discloses its pay equity findings and regularly analyzes pay disparities based on gender and race.  The gender pay gap is getting narrower, but at a glacial pace as shown by this 2024 Payscale survey.  Let’s take a closer look at pay transparency, and why it’s so important for achieving pay equity. The importanc ..read more

The art of managing Gen Z isn’t the mystery it perhaps was. Many people born between the mid-90s and late-00s are now firmly settled in the workplace. There’s now a wealth of research on how best to work with Gen Z—for example, our own survey with Eight Roads on the Young Generation in Tech (YGIT).  There are some broad challenges for employers planning how to work with Gen Z, for sure. But for forward-thinking employers, they also provide opportunities. Offer structures and benefits that reflect their needs, and they’ll consider you a far more attractive proposition.  Professionally ..read more

According to Harvard Business Review, 87.5 percent of digital transformations fail.  Why is that? There are many reasons. Chief among them is the fact that many organizations overlook the digital employee experience (DEX).  And in a post-pandemic world that embraces hybrid work, DEX is something that organizations can no longer afford to overlook. It’s now an indispensable part of employee experience.  In this article, we’ll explore strategies, solutions, and practical steps for effective DEX management—with examples of companies that have undergone successful digital transforma ..read more