Here are the themes of HRE's upcoming Health & Benefits Leadership Conference. They represent some of the biggest issues affecting employers and the most important tasks for HR leaders.
HR and technology have long collided for Kristi Hummel. For more than 25 years, the HR vet has led people strategies for a number of tech-focused companies—from the fast-growing tech firm VCE Corp. to Dell, where she led global HR until this past fall. Hummel joined learning management system provider Skillsoft as chief people officer […]
As a result of the current and widespread disruption of the labor market, companies are heavily pushing internal development. And one key element of this strategy is the adoption of internal talent marketplaces. When supported with the right technology, a talent marketplace helps employees find internal positions, projects and mentors without going through their managers. […]
Employee engagement drives company success. This is the critical element required for growing a business in the next decade and beyond. But this is a relatively recent concept. For decades, business leaders viewed employee engagement as an added bonus to another, more important concept: employee productivity. Companies were built on the tenets of productivity, efficiency, […]
As 2022 gets underway and employees' expectations continue to evolve, employers are racing to develop future-of-work plans that take into account what their workforces want—and flexibility will likely be at the heart of them. While policies can help formalize an employer's approach to flexibility and hybrid or remote work, employers shouldn't overlook another key element: […]
