HR Trends Report 2024
What HR trends are making waves in 2024?
- The rate of change in the external environment continues to accelerate.
- HR is caught between the need to manage the change facing the workforce and adapting to the change it is faced with itself.
- Innovation on the cusp of becoming a top priority and the need to control labor costs is now a top-three priority.
- In 2024 and beyond, HR will be challenged by the tension between the need to adapt and innovate and the need to control costs.
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Critical Insight
- The recognition of HR’s strategic leadership has never been stronger. Yet capacity continues to be a major obstacle and HR professionals’ levels of stress have increased dramatically year over year.
- Leadership skills are a key opportunity for investment and development among all employee groups.
- A more systematic and intentional approach is needed for organizations to improve employees’ perceptions of their cumulative lived experiences with the organization.
- The return-to-office (RTO) question is far from settled. Cutting through the noise is a challenge for organizations that want to take a data-driven approach to their working arrangements.
Impact and Result
- Discover the four trends defining HR’s path in 2024: HR in 2024: An Era of Change, Rethinking the Approach to Skills, Delivering on the Employee Experience, and Flexibility Beyond Remote Work
- Understand where best to use limited resources by using the data and analysis from McLean & Company’s HR Trends Report 2024 to inform your HR strategic plan in areas like employee engagement, learning and development, technology, and more.
- Understand which HR practices and trends have the biggest impact on organizational performance, workforce productivity, HR effectiveness, and more.
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Contributors
- Andrew Saidy, VP Global Talent, Ubisoft
- Dipankar Bandyopadhyay, CHRO with experience in transformation
- Gracie Mercado, EVP, People & Culture, Macmillan Publishers
- Jennifer O’Brien, Vice President, People(s) & Culture, Humber College
- Jules Gianneschi, Senior Vice President of People, America’s CAR-MART
- Manuelita Cherizard, CHRO, Royal Ontario Museum
- Philip Dana, CHRO and Navy Vet
- Terri Lewis, Chief People Officer, One Call
- Tina Busch, SVP & Chief Human Resources Officer, ATI
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