The best HR & People Analytics articles of March 20252025年3月的《Data Driven HR Monthly》由人力分析专家David Green主编，汇集了全球最新的HR与人力分析领域的重要洞察。文章聚焦于“技能驱动型组织”、“CHRO领导力崛起”与“生成式AI在HR中的落地应用”等核心主题。Insight222最新研究指出，若CHRO和高管团队以身作则地使用数据，HR人员在日常工作中应用人力分析的可能性将提高三倍。Mercer报告显示，高技能效能企业中有73%建立了系统的技能目录。此外，Deloitte《2025全球人力资本趋势》强调，应在“组织文化”“员工个人成长”“企业社会价值”三者之间平衡张力。McKinsey指出，25%的企业通过应用生成式AI，HR成本下降超过10%。Josh Bersin研究则揭示，13%的CHRO已跻身企业前五高薪高管，展现出其日益增强的战略地位。本期还涵盖了关于员工体验设计、DEI策略调整、混合办公模式下的设计思维、HR技术成熟度评估、员工聆听模型等多项实务建议，是HR从业者和决策者必读的专业内容合集。
I was reflecting this weekend that I have now been in the people analytics field for over a decade. Much has changed during that time, but three constants have been the Wharton People Analytics Conference, People Analytics World and UNLEASH. All have acted as a source of inspiration to me and an unmissable opportunity to connect with others in our field. As such, I am looking forward to attending and speaking at all three events in the coming weeks.
First, I’m excited to be speaking for the first time at the Wharton People Analytics Conference in Philadelphia on April 10 and 11 on Unlocking the Power of Data: The Case for Analytics Democratization. Other speakers include: Amy Edmondson, Ravin Jesuthasan, Ben Waber, Jennifer Kurkoski, Guru Sethupathy, Siri Chilazi, and Michael Fraccaro.
Next up, I’ll be co-chair and opening keynote speaker at People Analytics World in London on April 29 and 30, where I’ll be sharing some of the research and work we do at Insight222. Other speakers include: Dawn Klinghoffer, Alexis Saussinan, and Cole Nussbaumer.
The week after, I’ll be heading back to the US for Unleash America, which takes place in Las Vegas, and where I’ll be moderating the Unleash Talent Summit on May 6, and the AI Track on May 7 and 8. Other speakers include; Adam Holton, Anshul Sheopuri, Sue Lam, Avani Prabhakar, Christy Pambianchi, and Amy Coleman.
I hope to see some of you in Philadelphia, London and/or Las Vegas.
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MARCH ROAD REPORT
March turned into a month of highs and lows. Focusing on the former, the first week of March witnessed the most successful and well-attended Peer Meeting yet for member companies of the Insight222 People Analytics Program®, hosted by NBC Universal at their iconic global headquarters at the Rockefeller Center in New York. A huge thank you to Jamie Nevshehir and Jennifer Mandelson for hosting as well as our speakers at the event: Dawn Klinghoffer, Lynette Carlson, Olga Dobromyrova, Geetanjali Gamel, Anshul Sheopuri and Jeremy Shapiro. March also saw me deliver two conference keynotes in my home city of London. First up, I had the privilege of delivering the closing keynote at HiBob’s Heartcore HR event in London (see here) – thanks to Emily Hanssen Arent for inviting me and Toby Hough for hosting. The following week, I had the pleasure of delivering another closing keynote – this time at the Workhuman Forum Live – on how data-driven storytelling can elevate HR’s impact and role in shaping the future (see here) – thanks to Maya Lane and Kathryn Santora for inviting me.
Join me for an Insight222 webinar on April 2 on building data literacy in HR at scale.
In our research at Insight222, we have found that when both the CHRO and the HR leadership team role-model the use of people data and analytics, HR practitioners are three times more likely to use those insights in their day-to-day work. That’s the kind of cultural shift that unlocks business impact, strategic alignment, and organisational capability. If you’re interested in learning more about why data literacy is central to the success of both the HR function and the wider business—please join Naomi Verghese along with Shannon Rutledge, Director of People Analytics & Data Solutions at T. Rowe Price, and me on 2 April 2025 at 4:00 PM BST for our upcoming webinar, “Upskilling the HR Profession – Building Data Literacy at Scale”.
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HYBRID, GENERATIVE AI AND THE FUTURE OF WORK
HELEN POITEVIN - AI in HR: Hits, Misses and Growing Pains
Skills-based talent management cannot scale or be sustainable long-term without AI-enabled skills management.
Writing for Gartner, Helen Poitevin presents a AI use-case prism for human capital management (see FIG 1) before providing detailed insights on AI in HR across three key areas: recruiting, virtual assistants and skills in terms of what’s working and what isn’t as well as areas requiring more focus (growing pains) and what to expect next. For example, with AI-enabled skills management, AI is helping organisations to scale and personalise but is still struggling to incorporate unstructured skills data. Helen recommends starting with the teams that are most ready for using skills data alongside creating a long-term skills vision and ambition. She also highlights that growth in the use of AI based skills management tools is set to rise: “Gartner predicts that by 2028, 40% of large organizations will have invested in two or more AI-enabled skills management solutions with the aim of delivering business agility.” Thanks to Brian Heger for highlighting in his excellent Talent Edge Weekly newsletter.
FIG 1: AI use-case prism for human capital management (Source: Gartner)
McKINSEY - The state of AI: How organizations are rewiring to capture value
The latest McKinsey Global Survey on AI finds that the use of AI (both generative and analytical) is increasing with three-quarters of organisations using AI in at least one business function. From a people and HR perspective there are a number of takeaways from the report including these five: (1) Just over 20% of companies have created a comprehensive approach to foster trust among employees in the use of GenAI. (2) 31% of large and 17% of small organisations have established capability-based training courses designed to help employees use GenAI appropriately. (3) AI is shifting the skills organisations need with roles on risk and ethics on the rise and those in data-visualisation reducing. (4) There is an increased focus on reskilling with companies expecting this to further increase in the next three years (see FIG 2). (5) Across industries 13% of companies report they are using GenAI regularly in HR with the media and telecom sector highest at 22%. (6) 25% of companies report cost reductions in HR of more than 10% in the second half of 2025. Kudos to the authors: Alex Singla, Alexander Sukharevsky, Lareina Yee, and Michael Chui, with Bryce Hall.
FIG 2: Employee reskilling due to AI use (Source: McKinsey)
DELOITTE - 2025 Global Human Capital Trends: Navigating complex tensions and choices in the worker-organization relationship
Organizations that successfully increase the capacity of workers to grow personally, use their imagination, and think deeply are: 1.8 times more likely to report better financial results, 1.4 times more likely to say they are creating broad value for customers, community, and society, and 1.6 times more likely to say they provide workers with meaningful work.
Deloitte’s annual Global Human Capital Trends report is always insightful, thought-provoking and forward-looking, and the 2025 edition does not disappoint. The introduction sets the scene and highlights the need for organisations and leaders to find a balance between competing tensions (see FIG 3). The report has eight chapters organised around three themes of work, workforce, and organisation and culture, and what it means to navigate the tensions in them. As ever, the report is packed full of insights, visualisations and data – I particularly found the analysis on AI’s potential silent impacts interesting (see FIG 4). Kudos to the authors who include: Susan Cantrell, David Mallon, Kevin Moss, Nicole Scoble-Williams GAICD, and Yves Van Durme.
FIG 3: Navigating the tensions (Source: Deloitte)
FIG 4: AI’s potential silent impacts (Source: Deloitte)
PEOPLE ANALYTICS
NAOMI VERGHESE - The Importance of Data Literacy Skills for HR Professionals
By embracing people data and analytics, HR can move beyond traditional administrative functions and become a key driver of business success.
Insight222’s most recent People Analytics Trends survey confirms that scaling data literacy is a strategic priority for CHROs, with 85% of companies confirming that the CHRO has emphasised people data and analytics as an essential component of the HR strategy. However, only 58% of companies report that they have a data-driven culture for people data and analytics today, and only 51% of companies report that HR Practitioners are actively developing their data literacy skills to become more data driven. In her article, Naomi Verghese provides examples of data literacy in practice (see FIG 5), and highlights five skills for HR professionals to develop data literacy (including being able to tell stories with data)
FIG 5: Examples of data literacy in HR in practice (Source: Naomi Verghese, Insight222)
MARTHA CURIONI - Analytical AI vs Gen AI – What’s the Difference? | PRABHAKAR PANDEY - Understanding the European Union's Pay Transparency Directive | ALEXIS FINK - The Power of Responding instead of Reacting | RICHARD ROSENOW - An (updated) interview with an unusual People Analytics Expert - ChatGPT 4.5 | SCOTT REIDA - Evaluating Talent Hubs: A Data-Driven Approach using GenAI w/Tableau
In each edition of the Data Driven HR Monthly, I feature a collection of articles by current and recent people analytics leaders. These are intended to act as a spur and inspiration to the field. Five are highlighted in this month’s edition. (1) Martha Curioni provides a helpful primer on the differences between analytical AI and generative AI in a HR setting (see FIG 6). (2) Prabhakar Pandey provides a detailed examination on the background, objectives, key provisions, and potential impacts of the EU’s Pay Transparency Directive on employers, employees, and the broader European economy. (3) Alexis Fink provides a timely guide on the power of responding instead of reacting. (4) Richard Rosenow fires a series of questions related to people analytics at ChatGPT 4.5, and gets a pretty good set of answers. (5) Scott Reida walks through a structured, GenAI-powered methodology for evaluating talent hubs using ChatGPT, which explains how to define clear objectives, select job families and locations, weight decision factors, and visualise results for smarter, faster insights. Thanks to Hung Lee and Toby Culshaw for highlighting Scott’s article.
FIG 6: The differences between analytical and generative AI (Source: Martha Curioni)
THE EVOLUTION OF HR, LEARNING, AND DATA DRIVEN CULTURE
DAVE ULRICH - Six Actions for HR to Create More Stakeholder Value
How can HR create more value for all stakeholders? That’s the question posed by Dave Ulrich at the start of his article. As he explains, answering this pivotal question enables HR leaders to make informed choices about where to prioritise their work and then intentionally share what they are doing and its business impact. In the article, Dave outlines HR’s key stakeholders and the outcomes they require, a human capability framework that integrates 38 initiatives into four pathways, how to focus on outcomes as opposed to activities, and how we can get more precise when it comes to prioritising our work.
FIG 7: Six actions, questions, next steps to create stakeholder value from human capability
KATE BRAVERY, JOANA SILVA, AND JENS PETERSON | MERCER - Workforce 2.0: Unlocking human potential in a machine-augmented world - Global Talent Trends 2024-25
The world of work is in full metamorphosis, forever changed by the seismic shifts of recent years and accelerated by the imminent human-machine teaming revolution. The rise of generative AI has been met with equal measures of unease and excitement, changing not only how people work but the work experience itself…Unlocking the potential of this new world of work means keeping people at the heart of the transformation agenda.
These are an abridged version of the opening words from the Mercer Global Talent Trends report for 2024-25, which has recently been published. As ever, the study, which is based on a survey of 14,400 executives, HR leaders, employees, and investors, and is authored by Kate Bravery Joana Silva and Jens Peterson – with contributions from the likes of Jason Averbook, Ilya Bonic, Lewis Garrad, Ravin Jesuthasan, CFA, FRSA, Jean Martin and JESS VON BANK is an absolute must-read. As in previous years, the study highlights a disconnect between what HR is prioritising for the 2025 people agenda and the initiatives that executives believe will have the most impact on business growth (see FIG 8). The analysis also highlights that improving people managers’ skills (up from 9th in 2024 to 1st in 2025) and designing talent processes around skills (up from 8th to 3rd) are high on HR’s agenda. The study identifies and breaks down four priorities that firms that outpace their competitors are focusing on: (1) Driving human-centric productivity. (2) Anchoring to trust and equity. (3) Boosting the corporate immune system (including highlighting the importance of insights and analytics – see FIG 9). (4) Cultivating a digital-first culture. My tip to enjoy the study: find a couple of hours, make yourself a cup of tea and have a pen and paper to hand.
FIG 8: HR priorities for the 2025 people agenda (Source: Mercer Global Talent Trends 2024-25)
FIG 9: What gets measured gets managed (Source: Mercer Global Talent Trends 2024-25)
JOSH BERSIN AND KATHI ENDERES - Secrets Of The High Performing CHRO
The CHRO role is critical for business success, with CHROs serving as C-suite leaders first, and HR function leaders second.
In his article previewing his new paper with Kathi Enderes, Understanding the Path to CHRO, Josh Bersin cites a recent study by Nick Bloom and Mert Akan (see here), which finds that 13% of CHROs are among the top five highest-paid executives in their organisations, a sharp rise from just 0.5% thirty years ago. The paper outlines the role of the CHRO, career trajectories, education, experiences, and high-level success drivers, along with the implications for leaders. Findings include: (1) More than 75% of CHRO appointments come from the outside, indicating a lack of CEO confidence in HR and/or a lack of succession planning for this job. (2) There are four major archetypes of CHRO (see FIG 10): Career CHRO (who change companies regularly), Company CHRO (who grow up inside the company), Business CHRO (who are rotated into the job from non-HR roles), and Operations CHRO (who come from legal, finance, or operations background). (3) Business CHROs drive the greatest change and impact.
FIG 10: Four paths to the CHRO (Source: The Josh Bersin Company)
WORKFORCE PLANNING, ORG DESIGN, AND SKILLS-BASED ORGANISATIONS
MCKINSEY - The critical role of strategic workforce planning in the age of AI
S&P 500 companies that excel at maximizing their return on talent generate an astonishing 300 percent more revenue per employee compared with the median firm
In many cases, these top performing firms are using strategic workforce planning to stay ahead of their competitors in the talent race, treating talent with the same rigour as managing their financial capital. In their article, Neel Gandhi, Sandra Durth, Vincent Bérubé, Charlotte Seiler, Kritvi Kedia and Randy Lim, highlight how the emergence of generative AI is making strategic workforce planning even more important (see FIG 11), and discuss five best practices for building a holistic talent plan through SWP: (1) Prioritise talent investments as much as financial investments. (2) Consider both capacity and capabilities. (3) Plan for multiple business scenarios. (4) Take an innovative approach to filling talent gaps – by refocusing from hiring to reskilling and upskilling. (5) Embed SWP into business as usual:
Strategic workforce planning should become a business-as-usual process, not just a one-off exercise in the face of a single threat to an organization’s talent pipeline or business goals.
FIG 11: The impact of GenAI on tasks that previously had low potential for automation (Source: McKinsey)
JOSH TARR - Key Skills-Based Strategies for Building a More Agile and Resilient Workforce | WORKDAY – The Global State of Skills
Skills-based strategies are transforming the workplace into a more dynamic, adaptable, and equitable environment.
Josh Tarr shares key findings from Workday’s recently published The Global State of Skills report, which finds that 51% of business leaders are concerned about a looming talent shortage, with only 32% in agreement that their organisation possesses the skills needed for future success. The article examines three key skills-based strategies: (1) Skill Identification: Building an Accurate Picture of Workforce Capabilities. (2) Skills-Based Hiring: Focusing on What People Can Do, not Their Credentials. (3) Upskilling and Reskilling: Elevating the Workforce. Thanks to Sophie Barnes for highlighting.
FIG 12: Top drivers and anticipated outcomes for becoming a skills-based organisation (Source: Workday)
EMPLOYEE LISTENING, EMPLOYEE EXPERIENCE, AND EMPLOYEE WELLBEING
PATRICK COOLEN AND SANDER DE BRUIJN - 7 Golden Rules For Improving Employee Experience
Effective EX solutions are built on an iterative and evidence-based approach while co-creating with employees.
In their article, Patrick Coolen and Sander de Bruijn of KennedyFitch share their experience and insights on how to do continuous employee listening and improve employee experience. They share seven ‘Golden Rules’ for improving employee experience including: (1) Applying the ‘Triple Diamond Model’ (see FIG 13) in order to capture, understand and act on your employees' needs and ambitions. (2) Ensuring strategic positioning (“EX is a strategic capability, so the responsible team should be positioned in HR accordingly”). (3) Aiming for hyper-personalisation (“By understanding employee differences, organisations can tailor experiences to be more personalised and meaningful”). Read the article to learn about the other golden rules as well as letting Patrick and Sander know what rules eight, nine and ten should be.
FIG 13: The ‘Triple Diamond Model’ to drive employee experience (Source: Patrick Coolen and Sander De Brujin)
DANIEL WENTZEL, ALICE MINET, STEFAN RAFF-HEINEN, AND JANINA GARBAS - How Remote Work Changes Design Thinking
A key advantage of the design-thinking process over other innovation methods is its emphasis on the user experience.
Design thinking and user centred design are critical tools in building an exceptional employee experience – and HR practitioners can learn much from how these tools are applied to customer experience. In their article for MIT Sloan Management Review, Daniel Wentzel, Alice Minet, Dr. Stefan Raff-Heinen, and Dr. Janina Garbas share advice for leaders on structuring the design-thinking process to exploit the best features of both physical and virtual environments for more effective ideation, customer experience research, and other design-thinking steps. As outlined in FIG 14, effectively combining physical and virtual formats throughout the design-thinking process allows innovation leaders to harness the distinct advantages of each setting.
FIG 14: How to set up hybrid design thinking processes (Source: Wentzel et al)
LEADERSHIP, CULTURE, AND LEARNING
STUART L. HART - How to Embed Purpose at Every Level
In his article, drawn from his book, Beyond Shareholder Primacy: Remaking Capitalism for a Sustainable Future, Stuart L. Hart presents a practical framework and approach for truly embedding societal purpose, drawing upon the experience of several innovative companies. This framework imagines the company as a house of transformational sustainability – see FIG 15 – where the shared values are the foundation, the roof is the company purpose, the middle floor is the core elements of strategy. The article examines of the elements of the corporate architecture in more depth, along with examples from the 15 companies Hart and his team studied as part of their work: (1) What We Believe: Values (“The transformational companies we examined established a strong foundation built on their organizations’ values”). (2) Why We Exist: Purpose. (3) What We Solve: Aspirations and Quests: (“Together, aspirations and quests serve as the fulcrum for change in leading-edge companies, translating purpose and intention into strategy and operating reality”). (4) How We Win: Strategies and Initiatives. (5) What We Track and How We Accelerate: Goals and Metrics, Rewards and Incentives.
FIG 15: The House of Transformational Sustainability (Source: Stuart L. Hart)
DIVERSITY, EQUITY, INCLUSION AND BELONGING
DANIEL ZHAO – DEI Data Points on Glassdoor | JOELLE EMERSON – Analysis on EEOC Assessment of Unlawful DEI Initiatives | MEG A. WARREN – Amid DEI Rollbacks, Champion Allyship | JEREMIE BRECHEISEN, TERESA ALMEIDA AND NIKITA - When Does a Regional Approach to DEI Make Sense for Multinational Companies? | BRANDON DENON - In the US, DEI is under attack. But under a different name, it might live on
With the continuing uncertainty around Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, as with the February edition of Data Driven HR Monthly, I wanted to share some of the resources I’ve consumed on this topic with readers: (1) Daniel Zhao shares a number of DEI related data points from Glassdoor, which perhaps not surprisingly has seen that conservations on DEI have surged on Glassdoor’s community platform (see FIG 16). (2) DEI expert Joelle Emerson provides an initial assessment of the EEOC’s recent guidance on unlawful DEI initiatives. (3) Meg Warren, Ph.D. presents research that finds that abandoning DEI initiatives can harm both performance and workplace culture – with inclusive workplaces being better for workers and our businesses. (4) Jeremie K Brecheisen, Teresa Almeida, and Nikita present findings from a study by Gallup and the London School of Economics that found that 77% of companies had centralised DEI operations, but that the companies with decentralised regional operations reported greater business impact. (5) Finally, in a BBC InDepth article, Brandon Drenon writes on how companies in the US are adopting different stances to Trump’s Executive Orders.
FIG 16: The rise of DEI conversations on Glassdoor (Source: Glassdoor)
HR TECH VOICES
Much of the innovation in the field continues to be driven by the vendor and analyst community, and I’ve picked out a few resources from March that I recommend readers delve into:
EMILY KILLHAM | PERCEPTYX - The State of Employee Listening 2025 – Perceptyx's annual analysis of employee listening, authored by Emily Killham, is always a compulsory read. The 2025 edition continues the high standard with highlights including (1) How the top barriers to listening and action have changed in the last 12 months. (2) The critical risks associated with increasing burnout of HR leaders. (3) An update to Perceptyx’s 4-stage maturity model that describes the progression of an employee listening and action program from its most fundamental to its most robust.
FIG 17: Employee listening maturity model (Source: Perceptyx)
PHILIP ARKCOLL - The AI Maturity Curve: Measuring AI Adoption in your Organization – Philip Arkcoll, CEO at Worklytics , sets out a compelling framework for measuring the impact of AI on your organisation – the AI Maturity Curve (see FIG 18), which is comprised of three stages: Adoption (focused on uptake), Proficiency (focused on impact), and Leverage (focused on productivity gains).
FIG 18: Measuring the impact of AI on your organisation (Source: Worklytics)
DIRK JONKER AND RALF BOVERS - How common are people analytics teams? – In a recent edition of Crunchr’s newsletter, The HR Crunch, Dirk Jonker and Ralf Bovers provide some illuminating insights into the size and location of companies that have people analytics teams (see FIG 19) with the US and larger companies leading the way.
FIG 19: Companies with people analytics teams (Source: Crunchr)
ERNEST NG - AI Holds the Potential to Lead Organizations Into an Era of Abundance – Workday’s Ernest Ng, PhD discusses how AI agents will impact how we think about the organisation and challenge common HR orthodoxies. His article outlines how we can reimagine the organisation with a ‘beginners mind’ if we were not bound by the limitations of time and human attention, why AI is potentially transformational, and where to go from here.
FRANCISCO MARIN - Measuring the Impact of Organizational Network Analysis (ONA): From Insights to Tangible ROI - Francisco Marin and the Cognitive Talent Solutions team share a helpful primer on how to measure the ROI of organisational network analysis (ONA), which includes a table (see FIG 20) with example use cases and ROI estimates.
FIG 20: ONA Use Cases & Hard Savings Estimations (Source: Cognitive Talent Solutions)
PODCASTS OF THE MONTH
In another month of high-quality podcasts, I’ve selected five gems for your aural pleasure: (you can also check out the latest episodes of the Digital HR Leaders Podcast – see ‘From My Desk’ below):
DR. HOLLY LAM - Bridging the Chasm Between People Analytics & the Business – Holly Lam, PhD joins hosts Cole Napper and Scott Hines, PhD on the Directionally Correct podcast to discuss what it’s like to be decision maker in the business and move back to people analytics.
BRENDA KOWSKE - Strategic Workforce Planning in the Age of AI – In an episode of Workplace Stories, hosts Stacia Sherman Garr and Dani Johnson speak with Brenda Kowske about how her people analytics and workforce planning team is breaking down traditional HR silos, integrating workforce planning into business decisions, and staying ahead of the curve with AI and skills-based planning at Boston Scientific.
ARNE-CHRISTIAN VAN DER TANG – CHRO Insights – Arne-Christian Van Der Tang, CHRO at TomTom, joins Kathi Enderes on the What Works podcast to explain why the CHRO is no longer an HR leader, but now a business transformation executive.
IAN WILSON - How Amazon Builds High-Performing Teams – Ian Wilson, VP HR at Amazon, speaks to Christopher Rainey on the HR Leaders podcast about how Amazon builds high-performing teams, the role of psychological safety, and HR’s role in driving business impact.
BRYAN HANCOCK AND BROOKE WEDDLE - How to get return to office right - In this episode of McKinsey Talks Talent, Bryan Hancock and Brooke Weddle speak with host Lucia Rahilly about their recent research on the opportunities and challenges of RTO—and how leaders can drive productivity, collaboration, and innovation successfully.
VIDEO OF THE MONTH
AMIT MOHINDRA AND HEATHER WHITEMAN – People Analytics Career Skills Live!
Two giants of people analytics – Amit Mohindra and Heather Whiteman, Ph.D., who both featured on the recent list of Top 20 People Analytics Influencers join forces as Amit shares his career journey, the key skills for success in people analytics, and a wealth of invaluable advice. The webinar includes a demonstration of how to leverage basic descriptive analytics to perform predictive analytics.
BOOK OF THE MONTH
KWEILIN ELLINGRUD, LAREINA YEE, AND MARÍA DEL MAR MARTÍNEZ – The Broken Rung: When the Career Ladder Breaks for Women and How They Can Succeed in Spite of It
For every 100 men who are promoted to manager, only 81 women get promoted. This causes women to fall behind men early on – far below the ‘glass ceiling’. This is what Kweilin Ellingrud, Lareina Yee, and Maria del Mar Martinez have coined “the broken rung”. Their book is based on a decade of research, their own experiences as the first three chief diversity and inclusion officers for McKinsey, interviews with 50 leaders, and is a guide to help women accelerate their career growth. For a preview of the book, I recommend reading a recent article by the authors: How Women Can Win in the Workplace.
RESEARCH REPORT OF THE MONTH
FABRIZIO DELL’ACQUA ET AL - The Cybernetic Teammate: A Field Experiment on Generative AI Reshaping Teamwork and Expertise
Our results suggest that AI adoption at scale in knowledge work reshapes not only performance but also how expertise and social connectivity manifest within teams, compelling organizations to rethink the very structure of collaborative work.
This new paper summarises the findings from a study of how AI transforms the core pillars of collaboration – namely performance, expertise sharing, and social engagement – through a field experiment with 776 workers at Procter & Gamble. The findings include: (1) AI significantly enhances performance, (2) AL breaks down functional silos. (3) AI’s language-based interface prompted more positive self-reported emotional responses among participants (see FIG 21). The paper is a collaboration between Fabrizio Dell'Acqua, Charles Ayoubi and Karim Lakhani from the Digital Data Design Institute at Harvard along with Hila Lifshitz, Raffaella Sadun, Ethan Mollick, and Lilach M., and Yi Han, Jeff Goldman, Hari Nair, and Stewart Taub from Procter & Gamble. You can also read Ethan Mollick’s article on the research: The Cybernetic Teammate.
FIG 21: Working with AI leads to better emotional experiences (Source: Ethan Mollick)
BONUS RESOURCES
Some bonus resources to consume this month feature articles from five of my favourite newsletters:
Lars Schmidt ’s personal and compelling Confessions of a Reluctant Thought Leader explains why he has shifted back from being an influencer to an operator. Much of this really resonates.
In AI’s battle of the skills: upskilling vs deskilling, Laetitia Vitaud asks and then answers the question: “Does generative AI mostly amplify the skills of experienced workers, or does it level the playing field by enabling less experienced, less qualified workers to perform at higher levels?”
Andrew Spence’s Workforce Futurist is consistently one of the most insightful newsletters out there – his latest: Seven Ways Technology is Making Us More Human, Not Less is a must-read.
Serena H. Huang, Ph.D.’s From Data to Action has close to 10,000 subscribers, and it’s easy to see why as the latest edition: The Future of Work is Wellbeing—And It’s Broken Without Inclusion, tackles an important and timely topic in her typically insightful and personal style.
Not many understand the world of HR Tech better than Thomas Otter as his excellent Work in Progress substack consistently testifies. In Explaining M&A through the lens of Income Statement v Balance Sheet analyses two very different recent acquisitions: ServiceNow and Moveworks. and Deel and the global payroll business of Safeguard.
As an additional bonus, I also want to highlight the inaugural edition of Phil Kirschner’s The Workline, which features an exclusive interview with Annie Dean of Atlassian on their “Cost Per Visit” metric. See: Exclusive Case Study: Atlassian Humanized the Office with One New Metric.
FROM MY DESK
March saw the final four episodes of series 45 the Digital HR Leaders podcast, sponsored by our friends at Amazing Workplace, Inc.
KATHERINE MACNAUGHTON - How Manulife Improved Employee Experience Through Transforming Its Organisational Culture - In this episode I talk to Katherine Macnaughton, CHRL, Vice President of Global Talent Management and Development at Manulife, about how Manulife is embedding purpose into every stage of the employee journey.
SHON HOLYFIELD - Why Measuring Happiness Matters Just as Much as Engagement - Shon Holyfield, Founder and CEO of Amazing Workplace, Inc., joins me to explore how focusing on employee happiness can transform business outcomes.
LUCY ADAMS - How HR Can Lead Successful Digital Transformation Initiatives – Lucy Adams, CEO of Disruptive HR and former CHRO at the BBC and Eversheds, joins me to discuss how HR can lead digital transformation and enable business leaders to be change champions.
ANNA TAVIS - How to Drive Workforce Experience and Learning with Digital Coaching - Anna A. Tavis, PhD, Chair of the Human Capital Management Department at New York University and co-author (with Dr. Woody Woodward, PhD, PCC) of The Digital Coaching Revolution, joins me to explore how organisations can move from traditional coaching methods to scalable AI-powered solutions.
LOOKING FOR A NEW ROLE IN PEOPLE ANALYTICS OR HR TECH?
I’d like to highlight once again the wonderful resource created by Richard Rosenow and the One Model team of open roles in people analytics and HR technology, which – as Richard’s latest newsletter reveals - now numbers over 525 roles. Look out too for Richard's latest newsletter analysing the current job market.
THANK YOU
The Economic Times for including Excellence in People Analytics in their Top 20 books HR professionals should consider reading in 2025
Joachim Rotzinger for featuring me in the inaugural issue of his #OrgPeople series, which highlights individuals who are shaping the way we think about organisations and analytics: you can read Joachim’s post here.
Chrishtica Sivakumar for including me in her list of 11 HR Professionals to follow and learn from.
Similarly, K Nair for including me in his 25 Must-Follow LinkedIn Accounts for HR in 2025.
Congratulations to Sukumaran Mariappan on 25 years of growth and gratitude – and thanks for including me as one of 20 people you highlight for having helped you on your journey.
Marc Voi Chiuli. (MSc. HRM. Assoc CIPD. MIHRM.) for referencing Excellence in People Analytics in his recent article: HR Analytics Is Here! Are HR Practitioners Ready to Adopt this New Trend and Take Their Businesses to the Next Level?
I always enjoy reading posts from listeners of the Digital HR Leaders podcast summarising their key takeaways and learnings from individual episodes. Two great examples (the first from the recent episode with Lucy Adams on HR’s role in transformation and the second with Anna Tavis on digital coaching come from Shrez Ghelani (here) and Olimpiusz Papiez (here).
Finally, a huge thank you to the following people who either shared the February edition of Data Driven HR Monthly and/or posted about the Digital HR Leaders podcast, conferences or other content. It's much appreciated: Sam Streak, Anja Leschly, Thomas Kohler, Raja Sengupta, Brandon Merritt Johnson, Galo Lopez Noriega, Mike Madelin FCIPD, Megan Reif, Johann Cheminelle, Gerard Kiely, Charlotte Copeman, Clodagh Scannell, Matthew Phelan, Catriona Lindsay, Aurélie Crégut, Keji Fakeye, MS, CSM, Jose Luis Chavez Vasquez, Kouros Behzad, Jarret O., Callum MacRae, Dan George, Francesca Gabetti, Susana Pires, Felipe Jara, Laurent Reich, Bob Pulver, Megan Sherman, Ph.D., Diego Miranda ??, Amardeep Singh, MBA, Viktoriia Kriukova (Вікторія Крюкова), Krista V., David Simmonds FCIPD, Danielle Farrell, MA, CSM, Ian OKeefe, Sanja Licina, Ph.D., Deborah M. Weiss, Dean Carter, Dan Riley, Sibusiso Mkhize, Nitish Kumar, Aravind Warrier, Sarajit Poddar, Preetha Ghatak Mukharjee, Lewis Garrad, Greg Pryor , Kris Saling, Nick Lynn, Shirley Mariole, MPNGHRI, Richard Bretzger, Till Alexander Leopold, Kyle Forrest, Erik Samdahl, Ralf Buechsenschuss, David Boyle, Ben Berry, Amanda Nolen, Andrew Pitts, Swechha Mohapatra (IHRP-SP, SHRM-SCP, CIPD), Linpei Zhang, Moïra Taillefer, Sonia Mooney, Kathleen Kruse, Timo Tischer, Volodymyr Shevchenko Rebecca Ray, Anyuta Dhir, Tobias W. Goers ツ, John Guy, Kristin Saboe, Ph.D., Caitie Jacobson Mikulis, Hesham Ahmed, Daisy Grewal, Ph.D., Brian Elliott, Paola Alfaro Alpízar, Mila Pascual-Nodusso, John Golden, Ph.D., Heather Muir, Dan Lapporte, Tina Peeters, PhD, Frankie Close, Tonille Miller, Narelle Burke, Ying Li, Raquel Mitie Harano, Saumya Singh, Joseph Frank, PhD CCP GWCCM, John Perrian, Jill Larsen, Kelly Cartwright, Paul Boyle, Paulo Henrique Bolgar, Federico Bechini, Phil Inskip, Tammy Arnaud, Anushree Kabra Tatu Westling, Brad Hubbard, Marie-Hélène Gélinas, MBA (Cand.), Aimee Shirreffs, Delia Majarín, Jo Thackray FCIPD, Gishan Nissanka, Ali Nawab, Pedro Pereira, Natasha Ouslis, PhD, David Balls (FCIPD), Nikita D'Souza, Tanya Jain, Angela LE MATHON, Graham Tollit, Mino Thomas, Dave Millner, Ingi Finnsson ?, Maria Ursu, Craig Starbuck, PhD, Stela Lupushor, Dave Fineman, Monika Manova, Hanne Hoberg, Jacob Nielsen, James McKay, Morgan Baldwin, Mattijs Mol, Sebastian Knepper, Maria Alice Jovinski, Mariami Lolashvili, Shuang Yueh Pui, PhD, Ken Clar, Andrés García Ayala, Dr Philip Gibbs, Elizabeth Esarove, Higor Gomes, Olivier Bougarel, Ron Ben Oz, Louis Gordon, Jeff Wellstead, Agnes Garaba, Erik Otteson, Stephen Hickey
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
David Green ?? is a globally respected author, speaker, conference chair, and executive consultant on people analytics, data-driven HR and the future of work. As Managing Partner and Executive Director at Insight222, he has overall responsibility for the delivery of the Insight222 People Analytics Program, which supports the advancement of people analytics in over 100 global organisations. Prior to co-founding Insight222, David accumulated over 20 years experience in the human resources and people analytics fields, including as Global Director of People Analytics Solutions at IBM. As such, David has extensive experience in helping organisations increase value, impact and focus from the wise and ethical use of people analytics. David also hosts the Digital HR Leaders Podcast and is an instructor for Insight222's myHRfuture Academy. His book, co-authored with Jonathan Ferrar, Excellence in People Analytics: How to use Workforce Data to Create Business Value was published in the summer of 2021.
MEET ME AT THESE EVENTS
I'll be speaking about people analytics, the future of work, and data driven HR at a number of upcoming events in early 2025:
April 10-11 - Wharton People Analytics Conference, Philadelphia
April 16 - Delegation Rewired: What HR Can Stop Doing, Thanks To Agentic AI, Webinar organised by People Matters
April 29-30 - People Analytics World, London
May 6-8 - UNLEASH America, Las Vegas
June 4-6 - TALREOS (Talent Analytics Leadership Roundtable Economic Mobility Summit), Chicago
June 10-11 - Insight222 Q2 North American Peer Meeting, Toronto, (hosted by Royal Bank of Canada, and exclusive to the people analytics leader in member companies of the Insight222 People Analytics Program®)
June 25-26 - Insight222 Q2 European Peer Meeting, London, (hosted by BT, and exclusive to the people analytics leader in member companies of the Insight222 People Analytics Program®)
July 31 - August 1 - People Matters TechHR India 2025, Delhi
October 7-9 - Insight222 Global Executive Retreat, Atlanta (exclusive to the people analytics leader in member companies of the Insight222 People Analytics Program®)
October 15-16 - People Analytics World, New York
October 21-22 - UNLEASH World, Paris
More events will be added as they are confirmed.
Mercer
2025年04月14日
Mercer
David Green：The best HR & People Analytics articles of June 2024
David Green整理了最近的HR和PA的文章，其实最近也不仅仅是这方面的内容了，推荐大家可以了解看看，文章谈到了一些内容可以简单了解下：
Justin Taylor, Keith Sonderling, Guru Sethupathy的演讲
总结: 讨论了人员分析生态系统的最新进展和未来趋势。
Insight222研究报告《构建人员分析生态系统：运营模式v2.0》预览
总结: 探讨了如何构建和优化人员分析的运营模式。
TechWolf完成4275万美元B轮融资
总结: 该融资将进一步推动其在AI和人员分析领域的发展。
Mercer和MIT发布的《技能策略指南》
总结: 解释了为什么技能应成为重新思考工作的首要任务，以及如何在AI时代克服挑战。
关于混合工作模式对员工保留和生产力的影响研究
总结: 混合工作提高了员工满意度并减少了离职率。
组织网络分析（ONA）的应用
总结: ONA能够揭示传统组织图中缺失的协作和决策影响，有助于优化工作场所策略。
Insight222的网络研讨会《HR和人员分析中的AI应用》
总结: 探讨了AI在HR和人员分析中的应用及其影响。
McKinsey关于生成式AI的研究
总结: 生成式AI的采用激增，为组织带来了可衡量的业务价值。
Mark Mortensen和Amy Edmondson关于重新定义办公室返工对话的文章
总结: 提供了领导者如何通过重新定义对话来平衡面临面的工作和灵活工作的策略。
Rashleen Kaur Arora关于制定平衡组织和员工需求的返工策略的文章
总结: 提供了如何通过证据和员工反馈制定有效的返工策略的案例。
Pietro Mazzoleni关于HR中生成式AI的应用
总结: 讨论了根据数据成熟度做出明智选择的重要性。
Greg Newman关于AI聊天机器人的员工旅程
总结: 阐述了如何通过使用员工旅程语言来最大化数字工人的价值。
Martijn Wiertz关于生成式AI重新定义工作设计的文章
总结: 提出了一个愿景，即生成式AI帮助我们重新定义工作设计，创造更多时间用于重要任务。
Max Blumberg关于AI时代的人员分析职业的文章
总结: 探讨了在AI时代保持相关性的技能需求及其透明性。
Scott Latham和Beth Humberd关于自动化对工作的四种影响的文章
总结: 讨论了基于价值类型和交付方式的工作响应自动化的四种方式。
Deloitte团队关于组织网络分析（ONA）的文章
总结: 讨论了ONA在测量员工绩效和优化工作场所策略中的应用。
Dave Hodges关于基于研究的HR决策的文章
总结: 强调了基于证据的HR决策的重要性。
Henrik Håkansson关于人员分析中的“错失恐惧症”的文章
总结: 将“错失恐惧症”概念应用于人员分析领域。
Amit Mohindra关于“72法则”的文章
总结: 提供了一个解释增长率的关键参数的简单方法。
Louise Baird关于机器学习及其在人员分析中的应用
总结: 解释了监督学习和非监督学习在人员分析中的应用。
Martha Curioni关于将可解释的AI引入HR流程的文章
总结: 提供了在招聘、预测离职和评估晋升准备度等HR流程中应用可解释AI的例子。
Nick Jesteadt和Erin Fleming关于人员分析领域前沿问题的文章
总结: 强调了生产力、技能和产品化等人员分析中的常见主题。
Christopher Rosett关于人员分析立方体的文章
总结: 介绍了人员分析立方体的概念及其应用。
Willis Jensen关于寻找人员分析工作的文章
总结: 分享了关于如何成功过渡到新角色的见解和策略。
Gregory Vial, Julien Crowe和Patrick Mesana关于高级分析中的数据隐私风险管理的文章
总结: 介绍了五种数据隐私保护方法及其对数据可用性的影响。
Cathy O’Neil, Jake Appel和Sam Tyner-Monroe关于算法风险审计的文章
总结: 提供了帮助组织评估其AI工具和算法的简单框架。
Öykü Işık, Amit Joshi和Lazaros Goutas关于生成式AI风险管理的文章
总结: 提供了管理四种生成式AI风险的蓝图。
Josh Bersin关于首席人力官（CHRO）角色演变的文章
总结: 强调了CHRO在C-suite中的重要性及其角色的多学科性。
Jeanne Meister关于未来HR工作角色的文章
总结: 介绍了未来十年HR领域的十三个新兴工作角色。
Naomi Verghese关于HR技能提升的文章
总结: 分享了HR专业人员在数据咨询和沟通方面所需的关键技能。
MIT和Mercer关于技能驱动型组织的报告
总结: 探讨了在AI时代，技能驱动型组织的重要性及其益处。
Business Roundtable关于基于技能的内部流动白皮书
总结: 提供了推动技能验证和连接人员与机会的战略。
Microsoft关于混合工作环境中新员工入职的研究
总结: 强调了角色职责、反馈和资源对新员工成功的重要性。
Dave Ulrich关于绩效管理的文章
总结: 提出了一个四步流程来改善绩效管理系统。
Erin Meyer关于构建有效企业文化的文章
总结: 提供了六条指导原则，帮助管理者应对文化建设的挑战。
Rob Cross和Katheryn Brekken关于团队网络效应的研究
总结: 发现80%的团队未能达到其生产力潜力，并提供了提高团队绩效的六种策略。
Shujaat Ahmad关于AI对生产力和繁荣的影响的文章
总结: 提倡从生产力优先转向繁荣优先的AI模型，以促进公平和可持续发展。
BCG关于女性技术领导者在生成式AI中的领先地位的研究
总结: 发现高级女性技术领导者在生成式AI的采用方面领先于男性同行。
Richard Rosenow关于人员分析新兴趋势的文章
总结: 分享了人员分析领域的六大新兴趋势。
Alicia Roach关于战略性劳动力规划的文章
总结: 讨论了战略性劳动力规划在业务成功中的重要性。
Annie Dean关于团队状态的报告
总结: 发现使用AI的团队在协作方面表现更好。
Shay David关于HR技术从自动化到增强的演变的文章
总结: 解释了HR技术如何增强人类能力和丰富员工体验。
I’m putting the finishing touches to June’s Data Driven HR Monthly in the airport lounge at Minneapolis-St Paul after a successful peer meeting for more than 50 North American members of the Insight222 People Analytics Program. The two-day peer meeting featured speakers including: Justin Taylor Keith Sonderling Guru Sethupathy and a collaboration between Bennet Voorhees and Eunice Ok. We also previewed the soon-to-be-published Insight222 research study: Building the People Analytics Ecosystem: Operating Model v 2.0 (click on the link to register to receive a copy).
Other highlights in June included:
We also ran a peer meeting for European members of the Insight222 People Analytics Program, which was hosted by Nestlé and featured sessions run by Nataliya Filonenko Michael Cox Alex Browne Thomas Tchako Nowe Piyush Mathur Jack Liu and Martin Janhuba.
We delivered an Insight222 webinar on AI in HR and People Analytics, which featured Andrew Elston Justin Shemeley and Jasdeep Kareer, PhD (née Bhambra). Watch the recording here.
In the HR Tech space, TechWolf announced a new $42.75m round of Series B funding. Congrats to Andreas De Neve ? Mikaël Wornoo? Jeroen Van Hautte ? and the team.
Welcome to the more than 2000 new subscribers to the Data Driven HR Monthly newsletter, who joined in the last month.
This edition of the Data Driven HR Monthly is sponsored by our friends at Mercer
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Heartfelt thanks to Richard Rosenow
It’s ten years since I published the first edition of the Data Driven HR Monthly (which featured pioneers like Luk Smeyers Andrew Marritt Ian OKeefe Jonathan Ferrar and Greta Roberts). Unbeknown to me, Richard Rosenow organised a wonderful surprise – see here. It’s such a kind gesture - thank you Richard and the One Model team for creating this and the 100 people - friends, colleagues, clients, and peers - many of whom have inspired me in my journey in the wonderful world of people analytics. Thank you too to my colleagues at Insight222 - and everyone who has contributed to the Data Driven HR Monthly over the last decade.
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HYBRID, GENERATIVE AI AND THE FUTURE OF WORK
MCKINSEY - The state of AI in early 2024: Gen AI adoption spikes and starts to generate value
If 2023 was the year the world discovered generative AI, 2024 is the year organizations truly began using—and deriving business value from—this new technology.
New research from McKinsey highlights that adoption of AI – and GenAI – has surged in the last 12 months, that organisations are reporting measurable benefits, that there is increased mitigation of the risk of inaccuracy, and that there are a small group of high-performers leading the way. From a HR perspective, the study finds: (1) 12% of respondents are regularly using GenAI in HR. (2) Organisations most often see meaningful cost reductions from GenAI use in HR (see FIG 1). (3) HR functions are most often able to put their GenAI capabilities to use within one to four months. (4) Talent is one of six areas of best practice where high-performers are leading with GenAI (see FIG 2). (Authors: Alex Singla Alexander Sukharevsky Lareina Yee and Michael Chui with Bryce Hall)
FIG 1: Organizations most often see meaningful cost reductions from generative AI use in HR and revenue increases in supply chain management (Source: McKinsey)
FIG 2: Organizations seeing the largest returns from generative AI are more likely than others to follow a range of best practices (Source: McKinsey)
MARK MORTENSEN AND AMY EDMONDSON - Leaders Need to Reframe the Return-to-Office Conversation
Framing refers to how an issue is presented; it’s the meaning layered onto an issue or situation that shapes how people think about its objective facts. More precisely, it’s about re-framing: deliberately replacing taken-for-granted cognitive frames with more helpful ones.
Mark Mortensen and Amy Edmondson discuss the concept of ‘framing’ and its role for leaders in engaging in dialogue with employees about the balance between in-person and flexible working. They offer a three-step process to communicate flexible work policies: (1) Acknowledge the bind and be patient. (2) Focus on mutual value, not just organisational benefits. (3) Approach the process as data-driven, co-created, iterative learning. For more on this topic, listen to Mark in conversation with me on the Digital HR Leaders podcast: How to Foster Collaboration Within Hybrid Working Teams.
RASHLEEN ARORA - Design a Return-to-Office Strategy That Balances Organizational and Employee Needs
It’s becoming increasingly evident that rigid return-to-office (RTO) mandates can backfire by antagonising employees and impacting retention. Rashleen Kaur Arora presents Gartner research that outlines how HR leaders can craft a RTO strategy that balances organisational objectives with employee buy-in. The article includes a powerful case study on how Scotiabank implemented an evidence-based hybrid RTO model (see FIG 3).
FIG 3: Scotiabank’s role aligned hybrid personas (Source: Gartner)
PIETRO MAZZOLENI - Generative AI in HR: making smart choices depending on your data maturity | GREG NEWMAN - What's the employee journey of an AI chatbot? | MARTIJN WIERTZ - How will we use GenAI to redefine our Work Design: Creating Great Places to Be | MAX BLUMBERG - Saving your People Analytics Career in the Face of AI | SCOTT LATHAM AND BETH HUMBERD - Four Ways Jobs Will Respond to Automation
Organizations which provide an environment where the needs of the workforce are aligned with the outlines of the future will have the competitive advantage.
June saw a plethora of insightful reads about the impact of AI on HR and people analytics, so I’ve gathered five together here along with a prescient piece from 2018 on the professions most susceptible to automation. (1) Pietro Mazzoleni examines the importance of data maturity when it comes to the successful adoption of GenAI solutions in HR. (2) Greg Newman outlines why using the language of the employee journey will help your organisation maximise the value you gain from digital workers. (3) Martijn Wiertz presents a compelling vision where GenAI helps redefine our work design, creating time we can utilise for doing the work, care and training we need as a community – from great places to work to great places to be (see FIG 4). (4) Max Blumberg (JA) ?? explores how people analytics roles may evolve in the age of AI, the skills needed to remain relevant, and the importance of transparency in these issues within the people analytics community. (5) Finally, and thanks to Hung Lee for featuring it in a recent edition of Recruiting Brainfood, let’s revisit an article by Scott Latham and Beth Humberd that outlines four ways in which jobs will respond to automation based on two factors: the type of value provided and how it’s delivered (see FIG 5).
FIG 4: Source – Martijn Wiertz
FIG 5: Which Professions Are Most Vulnerable to Automation? (Source: Latham and Humberd)
PEOPLE ANALYTICS
MAYA BODAN, DON MILLER, SUE CANTRELL, GARY PARILLIS, AND CARISSA KILGOUR - Harnessing organization network analysis (ONA): Measure workforce performance and optimize strategies
ONA reveals insights absent in traditional organizational charts—such as how people collaborate, who influences decision-making and/or operates in silos, and sentiments surrounding trust and influence.
A helpful primer on how to use Organisational Network Analysis (ONA) from the Deloitte team of Maya Bodan Don Miller Susan Cantrell Gary Parilis and Carissa Kilgour. Their article discusses the myriad of use cases ONA can be used for, including to: (1) Measure workforce performance, (2) Understand individual workforce performance, and (3) Optimise workplace strategies.
FIG 6: ONA can help uncover collaboration within an organisation (Source: Deloitte)
DAVE HODGES - Facts Over Fads: HR Decisions Grounded in Research |HENRIK HÅKANSSON - People Analytics: The fear of missing out | AMIT MOHINDRA - The "Rule of 72": A Gentle Reminder | LOUISE BAIRD - Machine Learning and its Applications in People Analytics | MARTHA CURIONI - Building Explainable AI Into HR Processes | NICK JESTEADT AND ERIN FLEMING - People Analytics Frontiers aka Why are We Asking the Same Questions Again? | CHRISTOPHER ROSETT - The People Analytics Cube
If you’re not practising evidence-based HR, what type of HR are you practising?
In recent editions of the Data Driven HR Monthly, I’ve featured a collection of articles by people analytics leaders. These act as a spur and inspiration to the field. Seven are highlighted here. (1) David Hodges takes inspiration from Rob Briner’s research to make the case for evidence-based HR. As Dave asks: “If you’re not practising evidence-based HR, what type of HR are you practising?” (see FIG 7). (2) Henrik Håkansson applies the popular concept of “fear of missing out” to people analytics in his astute article. (3) Amit Mohindra provides a handy explanation of the ‘Rule of 72”, which can be used to extract a key parameter from a growth rate. (4) Louise Baird breaks down the two different types of machine learning – supervised and unsupervised – and how it can be applied to people analytics. (5) Martha Curioni provides examples of building explainable AI into a range of HR processes including: hiring, predicting attrition, and assessing promotion readiness. (6) Based on their survey of people analytics practitioners, Nick Jesteadt and Erin Fleming highlight three common yet seemingly elusive themes in the field: productivity, skills and productisation. (7) Christopher Rosett breaks down the People Analytics Cube (see FIG 8) in his LinkedIn post with a nod to Alexis Fink.
FIG 7: What is being used in HR instead of evidence? (Source: Evidence Based HR: A New Paradigm by Rob Briner, Corporate Research Forum)
FIG 8: People Analytics Cube (Source: Christopher Rosett)
WILLIS JENSEN - Finding a People Analytics Job
One of the features of the people analytics field is that it is pretty fluid with many that work within it moving roles in the last 12-18 months – as evidenced by the invaluable People Analytics Job Board that Richard Rosenow oversees. In his article, Willis Jensen shares insights from his recent transition to a new role including: (1) Being very clear about what you want in your next job. (2) Don’t write an AI-generated cover letter. (3) Use a resume tool to help you tailor your resume for each job. (4) Do not use a shotgun approach of applying for hundreds of jobs. (5) Use LinkedIn as a job-hunting tool. For more on people analytics careers, listen to Serena H. Huang, Ph.D. in discussion with me on the Digital HR Leaders podcast: How to Enhance Your Career in People Analytics.
ETHICS AND PRIVACY SPECIAL
GREGORY VIAL, JULIEN CROWE, AND PATRICK MESANA - Managing Data Privacy Risk in Advanced Analytics | CATHY O’NEIL, JAKE APPEL AND SAM TYNER-MONROE - Auditing Algorithmic Risk | ÖYKÜ ISIK, AMIT JOSHI, AND LAZAROS GOUTAS - 4 Types of Gen AI Risk and How to Mitigate Them
Three articles covering ethics, risk and privacy with regards to advanced analytics and AI, which should be invaluable to people analytics professionals and HR technologists alike. (1) Gregory Vial Julien Crowe and Patrick Mesana present five approaches to measuring data privacy and how each approach impacts on data usability (see FIG 9) before discussing mitigation strategies. (2) Cathy O’Neil Jacob Appel and Sam Tyner-Monroe, Ph.D. lay out a set of simple frameworks (see example in FIG 10) designed to help organisations evaluate that their AI tools and algorithms are fair and working as intended. (3) Öykü Işık Amit Joshi and Lazaros Goutas outline a blueprint for managing four types of generative AI risk (see FIG 11).
FIG 9: Five Approaches to Preserving Data Privacy (Source: Vial, Crowe and Mesana)
FIG 10: A Simplified Ethical Matrix (Source: O’Neil, Appel, and Tyner-Monroe)
FIG 11: Four types of AI risk (Source: Isik, Joshi, and Goutas)
THE EVOLUTION OF HR, LEARNING, AND DATA DRIVEN CULTURE
JOSH BERSIN - The Ever Expanding Role Of The Chief HR Officer (CHRO)
The CHRO must transform the HR team, moving from the “service delivery” model to an HR team of consultants, problem-solvers, and analysts.
Josh Bersin lays out a compelling case for the CHRO being the most important role of all in the c-suite now. He highlights factors such as the abundance of people challenges, labour shortages, organisation redesign, and globalisation. Josh also introduces his initial findings from a study of 47,000 CHROs: (1) There is a major increase in the C-level importance of the CHRO. (2) The CHRO job is multi-disciplinary, and more difficult than it looks. (3) The CHRO role is expanding. (4) Strong CHROs are now transforming the HR function. (5) The HR function is not developing itself - 80% of high-performing CHROs are external hires.
FIG 12: The two roles of the CHRO (Source: Josh Bersin)
JEANNE MEISTER – 13 HR jobs of the future
In HR, this is our Promethean moment as we navigate a complex future, one with limitless possibilities in how we work, where we work, who we work with and what we expect in our workplace.
Based on her conversations with HR leaders, Jeanne C M. presents 13 HR jobs of the future, which will emerge between now and 2030 (see FIG 13). Jeanne then explains how each of these roles “embody five core workplace themes enabling leaders to embrace reinvention as a strategy where humans and machines collaborate to deliver in which to the organization.” The five themes are: (1) Building GenAI literacy, (2) Working from anywhere, (3) Building human-machine partnerships, (4) Driving innovation and wellbeing in the workplace, (5) Creating a personalised employee experience.
FIG 13: 13 HR Jobs of the Future (Source: Jeanne Meister)
NAOMI VERGHESE - Investing in the Right Approach to Upskilling HR
When the CHRO and HRLT role-model the use of people data and analytics in their day-to-day job, then other HR professionals also use people data and analytics in their work.
Naomi Verghese shares the key findings from research she led at Insight222 to identify the key skills HR professionals need to consult and communicate effectively with data. The study, Upskilling the HR Profession: Building Data Literacy at Scale, identified five essential skills for HR professionals: (1) Consulting, (2) Influencing Stakeholders, (3) Data Interpretation, (4) Building Recommendations from Insights, (5) Storytelling. The study also identified the importance of role-modelling by the CHRO and HR leadership team with regards to data literacy (see FIG 14, and above quote).
FIG 14: (Source: Insight222, Upskilling the HR Profession: Building Data Literacy at Scale)
WORKFORCE PLANNING, ORG DESIGN, AND SKILLS-BASED ORGANISATIONS
MIT SMR CONNECTIONS AND MERCER - Strategic Shift: Skills-Powered Organizations in the Age of AI
By making skills the backbone of their talent practices, organizations can better allocate people to projects, help employees explore different career paths, and gain the flexibility to allocate their capital more effectively as their needs change.
In their collaborative study, MIT and Mercer break down why skills should be a priority in rethinking work and people management in the age of AI. The report highlights the benefits for employees and employers of a skills-based approach (see FIG 15), provides practical guidance on how to overcome challenges, and provides powerful learnings from Standard Chartered’s skills journey. Features contributions from experts including Peter Cappelli Tanuj Kapilashrami Ravin Jesuthasan, CFA, FRSA Brad Bell Joseph Fuller Tom Kochan and Audrey Mickahail.
FIG 15: Benefits of a skills-powered approach (Source: MIT and Mercer)
LINKEDIN LIVE: Skills-Powered Organizations in the Age of AI | JULY 24, 2024
Register to join Tanuj Kapilashrami, Ravin Jesuthasan and David Green for a LinkedIn Live discussion on Skills-Powered Organizations in the Age of AI on July 24 at 10.00am EST.
BUSINESS ROUNDTABLE - Skills-Based Internal Mobility Playbook Summary | White Paper
Skills are five times more predictive of a person’s future performance than their education
An excellent playbook compiled by the Business Roundtable on skills-based internal mobility, which is organised into five chapters covering critical areas such as stakeholder engagement, skills assessment and validation (see FIG 16), how to connect people with opportunities, how to measure success, and enabling technologies. Features examples from a myriad of companies including: Walmart, Chevron, Workday and Vistra. Thanks to Brian Heger for highlighting this resource in his excellent weekly Talent Edge newsletter.
FIG 16: Skill validation characteristics (Source: Business Roundtable)
EMPLOYEE LISTENING, EMPLOYEE EXPERIENCE, AND EMPLOYEE WELLBEING
DAWN KLINGHOFFER, KAREN KOCHER, AND NATALIE LUNA - Onboarding New Employees in a Hybrid Workplace
New hires who are provided with clarity about their role responsibilities, feedback on how they are doing, and resources to help them answer questions are three to four times more likely to contribute to their team’s success during the first 90 days.
Now we are in the era of hybrid work, what’s the ideal way to onboard new employees today? That was one question that the people analytics team at Microsoft sought to answer in a recent study, along with: How can we ensure that new hires thrive while also supporting flexibility? The findings confirmed that onboarding to a new role, team, or company is a key moment for building connections with the new manager and team and doing so a few days in person provides unique benefits. But just requiring newcomers to be onsite full time doesn’t guarantee success. In their article, Dawn Klinghoffer Karen Kocher and Natalie Luna explain and provide examples of how onboarding that truly helps new employees thrive in the modern workplace is less about face time and more about intention, structure, and resources. For example, the study found that the top factors that make the most difference in onboarding new employees are clarity about role responsibilities, feedback on how they are doing, and resources to help them answer questions. New hires who are successfully set up with these three elements are three to four times more likely to contribute to their team’s success during the first 90 days. For more on Microsoft’s approach to employee thriving, which they define as: being energized and empowered to do meaningful work, listen to Dawn in conversation with me on the Digital HR Leaders podcast: How Microsoft Created A Thriving Workforce By Going Beyond Employee Engagement.
LEADERSHIP, CULTURE, AND LEARNING
DAVE ULRICH - Reflections on Performance Management: How to Make Meaningful Progress
In May’s Data Driven HR Monthly, I featured a McKinsey article on a performance management system that puts people first. In his recent article, Dave Ulrich cites a number of sources highlighting that pretty much all stakeholders (including employees, executives and HR leaders) are unhappy with their performance management systems. Ulrich lays out a four-step process for performance management (see FIG 17) comprising: (1) Clarifying expectations with meaningful goals. (2) Measuring and tracking performance. (3) Allocating financial and non-financial rewards. (4) Having positive coaching conversations. Dave then highlights the recently launched Manifesto for Flourishing at Work, a collaboration of practitioners, consultants, and academics to reinvent performance management. He highlights three critical topics from the manifesto:
First, align performance and purpose by making sure that performance encourages progress towards a company’s purpose that includes all stakeholders. Second, manage the complex system of performance by focusing both on individuals within the system and also the system itself. Third, ensure that leaders are secure enough in themselves to use their power to empower others and to allow employees to contribute to their own improvement.
FIG 17: Performance management process – four steps (Source: Dave Ulrich)
ERIN MEYER - Build a Corporate Culture That Works
If you hire people whose personalities don’t align with your culture, no matter what else you get right, you are unlikely to get the desired behaviors.
Ever since Peter Drucker’s infamous assertion that “culture eats strategy for breakfast,” it has been widely acknowledged that managing corporate culture is the key to business success. Yet the link between ‘values’ and ‘behaviours’ is often stark. As INSEAD professor Erin Meyer asks in her latest Harvard Business Review article: “If culture eats strategy for breakfast, how should you be cooking it?” Erin blends in examples from the likes of Amazon, Netflix, Airbnb, Pixar and others and presents six guidelines to help managers who are confronting the challenges of culture building: (1) Build Your Culture Based on Real-World Dilemmas. (2) Move Your Culture from Abstraction to Action. (3) Paint Your Culture in Full Colour. (4) Hire the Right People, and They Will Build the Right Culture. (5) Make Sure that Culture Drives Strategy. (6) Don’t Be a Purist. An absolute must-read. At Insight222, we’re delighted that Erin Meyer will be speaking at our Global Executive Retreat in Amsterdam in September. The Retreat is exclusively for member companies of the Insight222 People Analytics Program. Click on this link to find out more.
ROB CROSS AND KATHERYN BREKKEN | I4CP - The Team Network Effect™: How Precision Collaboration Unleashes Productivity
A new study of 1,400 organisations on team effectiveness, led by Rob Cross and Katheryn Brekken, Ph.D. for The Institute for Corporate Productivity (i4cp), finds that 80% of teams fall short of reaching their full productivity potential due to corporate dysfunction. The study identifies six snares that stifle team performance (see FIG 18), and provides powerful examples including from Roche, which found that efforts to increase geographic and cross-functional collaboration across teams in 89 countries reaped a direct revenue impact of $500 million in less than two years.
FIG 18: How companies rank against the six dysfunctions that stifle team performance (Source: i4CP)
DIVERSITY, EQUITY, INCLUSION, AND BELONGING
SHUJAAT AHMAD - From Productivity to Prosperity: The AI Shift Leaders Must Embrace
The jobs most at risk from AI automation are jobs occupied by women and minority racial groups. In his compelling essay, Shujaat Ahmad argues that this calls for a shift from the current focus on a productivity-only AI model (with an emphasises on cutting costs at the expense of worker well-being and creativity) to a prosperity-first AI model, championing AI's potential to improve human life, promote fairness, and ensure sustainable progress alongside economic growth. Shujaat then breaks down the differences between the two models in four scenarios: software development, product management, go-to market, and recruitment (see FIG 19), as well as outlining three steps for leaders seeking to build a prosperity-first AI strategy: (1) Adopt a Prosperity-First True North and Accountability Measures for AI Adoption. (2) Put Employees in the Pilot Seat. (3) Commit to Responsible AI Development; Integrate AI Ethically and Inclusively.
FIG 19: Productivity Only vs. Prosperity First AI – Recruitment (Source: Shujaat Ahmad)
BCG - Women Leaders in Tech Are Paving the Way in GenAI
A recent BCG study finds that that senior women in technical functions are ahead of their male peers in adopting GenAI—but junior women are lagging behind (see FIG 20). The study identifies three key attributes that correlate with gender disparities in GenAI adoption: (1) Awareness of GenAI’s criticality to job success. (2) Confidence in GenAI skills. (3) Risk tolerance for using GenAI prior to having a company policy. The authors (Maria Barisano Neveen Awad Adriana Dahik Julie Bedard Uche M. Gunjan Mundhra and Katherine Lou) conclude that if the number of senior and junior women with GenAI skills increases, then it’s likely that women’s representation in tech leadership will grow, and call for highly targeted upskilling programs, leadership advocacy and change management.
FIG 20: Women leaders in tech are ahead in GenAI adoption (Source: BCG)
HR TECH VOICES
Much of the innovation in the field continues to be driven by the vendor community, and I’ve picked out a few resources from June that I recommend readers delve into:
RICHARD ROSENOW - 6 Emerging People Analytics Trends for a People-Focused Future – Richard Rosenow of One Model shares his observations on shifts in the people analytics field including related to regulation, team structure and focus, and the people data supply chain (see FIG 21). Definitely worth a read.
FIG 21: The People Data Supply Chain (Source: One Model)
ALICIA ROACH - Want Better Business Planning? Budgeting? Recruiting? Read This! – Alicia Roach of eQ8 provides a treatise on the rising importance of strategic workforce planning: “SWP is a business planning and forecasting process that just happens to be grounded in people.”
FIG 22: Source – eQ8
ANNIE DEAN – State of Teams 2024 – Annie Dean presents Atlassian’s newly published report on the State of Teams, which has a plethora of insights including that teams and leaders who use AI are better at collaborating.
FIG 23: Team that use AI on a regular basis (Source: Atlassian)
SHAY DAVID - From Automation To Augmentation: The Evolution Of HR Tech – Shay David of retrain.ai explains how leveraging HR technology to enhance human capabilities and enrich the employee experience is transforming the workplace.
PODCASTS OF THE MONTH
In another month of high-quality podcasts, I’ve selected five gems for your aural pleasure: (you can also check out the latest episodes of the Digital HR Leaders Podcast – see ‘From My Desk’ below):
REID HOFFMAN - Gen AI: A cognitive industrial revolution - In this episode of At the Edge, Reid Hoffman speaks with McKinsey’s Lareina Yee about the generative AI revolution and how it can teach users to understand and harness its power.
PATRICK COOLEN – The Evolution of People Analytics – In a fascinating episode of the Talent Intelligence Collective podcast, Patrick Coolen joins hosts Toby Culshaw Alan Walker and Alison Ettridge to discuss all things people analytics and the factors that drive success.
MARCO BURELLI – Shaking Up Silos – Marco Burelli joins the HR Visionaries podcast to walk through the HR transformation journey at TomTom including breaking down old silos to create a more unified and dynamic team structure.
JOSH BERSIN - A New, Transformed Role For The HR Business Partner – Josh Bersinoutlines some of his latest research in relation to the new and transformed role of the HR Business Partner, which as Josh says has become pivotal to a company’s successful people strategy.
SHUBA GOPAL - Computational Biology Helps People Analytics with Small Samples & More – In another must-listen episode of the Directionally Correct podcast, Shuba Gopal joins hosts Cole Napper and Scott Hines, PhD to discuss how techniques gleaned from computational biology can help in people analytics.
VIDEO OF THE MONTH
PRASAD SETTY – Tech It Up a Notch: GenAI for HR Leaders
In his keynote at the i4CP Next Practices Now Conference, Prasad Setty, formerly Head of People Analytics at Google, breaks down the opportunities and challenges of GenAI in organisations and posits a path forward for HR leaders to champion humanity in the workplace. At Insight222, we’re delighted that Prasad will be speaking at our Global Executive Retreat in Amsterdam in September. The Retreat is exclusively for member companies of the Insight222 People Analytics Program. Click on this link to find out more.
BOOK OF THE MONTH
SHARNA WIBLEN - Rethinking Talent Decisions: A Tale of Complexity, Technology and Subjectivity
In ReThinking Talent Decisions, Sharna Wiblen, presents an uncomfortable truth: Talent decisions are always subjective. Drawing on examples from business, sports, movies and everyday interactions, Sharna emphasises the importance of understanding complexity and encourages deliberate, intentional, and informed decisions and conversations around talent. For a teaser from the book, read my expert interview with Sharna: Rethinking Talent Decisions and Navigating Subjectivity in HR.
RESEARCH REPORT OF THE MONTH
NICHOLAS BLOOM, RUOBING HAN, AND JAMES LIANG - Hybrid working from home improves retention without damaging performance
There are a lot of opinions about the impact of hybrid work and some executives argue that it damages productivity, innovation and career development. But what does the data say? In their study, Nick Bloom Ruobing Han and James Liang find that hybrid working improved job satisfaction and reduced quit rates by one-third. The reduction in quit rates was significant for non-managers, female employees and those with long commutes (see FIG 24). For more from on this topic, listen to Nick Bloom in conversation with me on the Digital HR Leaders podcast: Unmasking Common Myths Around Remote Work.
FIG 24: WFH cut attrition by 33% overall, and had a particularly strong effect for non-managers, women and those with longer commutes (Source: Bloom et al)
FROM MY DESK
June saw the final three episodes of series 39 of the Digital HR Leaders podcast, which was kindly sponsored by our friends at Crunchr. Thank you to Ralf Bovers and Dirk Jonker for your partnership and support. Also included are two articles inspired by series 38 and 39 of the podcast respectively.
DIRK JONKER – Driving Business Transformation with Advanced People Analytics - Dirk Jonker, one of the most knowledgeable and passionate leaders in the people analytics field, joins me to discuss how people analytics is enabling HR to play a more active role in business transformation and strategy.
ARMAND SOHET - Painting the Future of HR with AI, Analytics and Curiosity - Armand Sohet, Chief Sustainability, HR, and Communications Officer, joins me to discuss how a data-driven approach to HR has led to substantial cost savings and efficiency gains at AkzoNobel.
ERIN GERBEC – How Cardinal Health Transformed Their People Analytics Function – Erin Gerbec, Ph.D. shares insights from her three-year journey of transforming the people analytics operating model at Cardinal Health, and how they shifted from a build to a buy strategy for its people analytics platform.
DAVID GREEN - Revolutionising Workplace Experience through Employee Insights and Analytics – In this article for myHRfuture, I look at how people analytics and AI is reshaping the employee experience through the eyes of recent guests on the Digital HR Leaders podcast including Loren I. Shuster Nickle LaMoreaux and Craig Starbuck, PhD.
DAVID GREEN - How can HR leaders use people analytics to uncover and address inclusivity gaps? – A round up of series 39 of the Digital HR Leaders podcast, with insights from Daisy Auger-Domínguez (she/her/ella), Kate Bravery, and Ilya Bonic as well as Dirk, Armand, and Erin.
PETER SCHULZ-RITTICH AND DAVID GREEN – D as in Data Analytics – In June, I also had the pleasure of joining Dr. Peter Schulz-Rittich Caroline Amalie Allard and Christina May on ISS’s A People and Culture Podcast to discuss the power of people analytics within HR, where we are today – and where we are going.
LOOKING FOR A NEW ROLE IN PEOPLE ANALYTICS OR HR TECH?
I’d like to highlight once again the wonderful resource created by Richard Rosenow and the One Model team of open roles in people analytics and HR technology, which now numbers over 500 roles.
THANK YOU
Thomas Kohler for including the May edition of Data Driven HR Monthly in his round-up of resources for HR professionals
Amit Mohindra (here), Oliver Kasper (here) and Michelle Deneau (here) for sharing details on the Insight222 People Analytics Trends survey for 2024
Neeru Monga (here), Agostina Verni (here), and Tristan Hack (here) for sharing takeaways from the recent Insight222 webinar on Transforming HR and People Analytics with AI.
Sharon Saldanha for sharing her key learnings on the Digital HR Leaders podcast episode with Kate Bravery and Ilya Bonic on the importance of skills and trust
Similarly, Olimpiusz Papiez also highlighted the relationship between trust and employee engagement, productivity and retention, which Ilya, Kate and I discussed in the Digital HR Leaders podcast episode: Navigating the Future of Work: AI, Skills, and Trust in the Modern Workforce.
Marcela Niemeyer for recommending and sharing her key learnings on the Digital HR Leaders podcast episode with Nickle Lamoreaux on How IBM uses AI to transform HR.
Harisenin.com for including me in their list of 12 people to follow for HR professionals on LinkedIn.
Aurélie Crégut for sharing her key takeaways (here) from the Digital HR Leaders podcast episode with Dirk Jonker: Driving Business Transformation with Advanced People Analytics
Alicia Roach for posting about the fifth anniversary of the Digital HR Leaders podcast (see here), which included her episode, How Strategic Workforce Planning Contributes to Business Success, ranking in the top 10 most listened to episodes!
Sonali Kumar for sharing her learnings on the Digital HR Leaders podcast episode with Piyush Mehta, How to Create Personalised Employee Experiences.
Thank you to everyone that contributed to the amazing video celebrating ten years of the Data Driven HR monthly: Sue, Jeremy. Eden, Kalifa, Lexy, Greg, Adam, Dawn, Chris, John, Jonathon, Kris, Greg, Paul, Anna, Cole, Shannon, Al, Toby, Thomas, Dirk, Antony, Alan, Michael, Ian, Chris, Craig, Andrew, Alexis, Patrick, Sanja, Dan, Mark, Ben, Sukumaran, Stela, David, Christopher, Daisy, Serena, Tony, Chad, Pietro, Kathi, Casey, Gabe, Lydia, Mark, Allen, Nicole, Nicholas, Stephanie, Andrew, Ramesh, Hallie, Dave, Roxanne, Matt, Max, Stacia, Travis, Jordan, Kelly, Ethan, Bethany, Rob, Anthony, Meg, Shawn, RJ, Jordan, Justin, Tanmay, Jon, Christine, Nick, Madhura, Brian, Raja, Henrik, Ben, Ben, Prasad, Maja, Stacey, Courtney, Buddy, Kristin, Shujaat, Gary, Alicia, Fabian, Philipp, Irene, Nick, Ryan Hammond, Amit Mohindra Gregor Teusch and of course Richard Rosenow.
Finally, a huge thank you to the following selection of people who shared the May edition of Data Driven HR Monthly. It's much appreciated: Viktoriia Kriukova (Вікторія Крюкова) Juan Antonio Vega Davina Erasmus Dan Riley Danielle Farrell, MA Ugur Zel (Prof. / ACC) Veronika Birkheim Chris Louie Jaqueline Oliveira-Cella Ganchimeg Gantulga EDLIGO Talent Analytics and Learning Analytics Ken Oehler Nick Lynn Sohil Varshney Jackson Roatch Graham Tollit RADICL Adam Tombor (Wojciechowski) Reshma Mawji Jeremy Carpenter, M.S., MPA Terri Horton, EdD, MBA, MA, SHRM-CP, PHR Bilal Laouah Catriona Lindsay Ayomide Ebietomiye Irada Sadykhova Caroline Arora Lawson Iduku German Arciniegas Brandon Merritt Johnson Jim de Vries Dave Millner Aravind Warrier Terrance Edwards David Simmonds FCIPD Stefano Di Lauro Francesca Caroleo, SHRM-SCP, ICF-ACC Emmanuel Dominick Chris Long Cedric Borzee Maria Alice Jovinski Aurélien GOZET Aizhan Tursunbayeva, PhD, GRP Susan Knolla Markus Graf Matt Elk Robert Newry Anil Saxena Fresia Jackson Conor Gilligan Alexandra Nawrat Hanadi El Sayyed Kannu Priya Arora Patrick Svensson Phil Inskip Jennifer Moore John Gunawan Ann-Marie Clayton Johnson Roshaunda Green, MBA, CDSP, Phenom Certified Recruiter Rebecca Thielen Shilpa Shah Tom Morehead PCC,MBA,SPHR David Balls (FCIPD) Meghan M. Biro Sebastian Kolberg Olivier Bougarel Catherine Coppinger Aimee Wilkinson Andrew Bamber Matt Higgs MBA FCIPD Chandresh Natu David Duewel Nicola Wood Andrew Pitts Kerrian Soong Andrés García Ayala Sanja Licina, Ph.D. Jeremy Shapiro Chris Lovato Tatu Westling Ken Clar Brandon Roberts David van Lochem Placid Jover Ohad Geron Carly Fordham Tobias W. Goers ツ Dave Fineman Laura Thurston Higor Gomes Kirandeep Chakrabarti Stephen Hickey Liz Mackay Lina Makneviciute David McLean
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
David Green ?? is a globally respected author, speaker, conference chair, and executive consultant on people analytics, data-driven HR and the future of work. As Managing Partner and Executive Director at Insight222, he has overall responsibility for the delivery of the Insight222 People Analytics Program, which supports the advancement of people analytics in over 90 global organisations. Prior to co-founding Insight222, David accumulated over 20 years experience in the human resources and people analytics fields, including as Global Director of People Analytics Solutions at IBM. As such, David has extensive experience in helping organisations increase value, impact and focus from the wise and ethical use of people analytics. David also hosts the Digital HR Leaders Podcast and is an instructor for Insight222's myHRfuture Academy. His book, co-authored with Jonathan Ferrar, Excellence in People Analytics: How to use Workforce Data to Create Business Value was published in the summer of 2021.
MEET ME AT THESE EVENTS
I'll be speaking about people analytics, the future of work, and data driven HR at a number of upcoming events in 2024:
June 25-26 - Insight222 North American Peer Meeting (Minneapolis, US) - exclusively for member organisations of the Insight222 People Analytics Program
July 24 - LinkedIn Live - Skills-powered organizations in the Age of AI, with Ravin Jesuthasan and Tanuj Kapilashrami
September 16-19 - Workday Rising (Las Vegas)
September 24-26 - Insight222 Global Executive Retreat (Colorado, US) - exclusively for member organisations of the Insight222 People Analytics Program
October 2-3 - People Analytics World (New York)
October 16-17 - UNLEASH World (Paris)
October 22-23 - Insight222 North American Peer Meeting (hosted by Workday in Pleasanton, CA) - exclusively for member organisations of the Insight222 People Analytics Program
November 12-14 - Workday Rising EMEA (London)
November 19-20 - Insight222 European Peer Meeting (hosted by Merck in Darmstadt, Germany) - exclusively for member organisations of the Insight222 People Analytics Program
More events will be added as they are confirmed.
Mercer
2024年07月03日
Mercer
根据美世 2024 年全球人才趋势研究，高管认为人工智能是提高生产力的关键，但大多数员工尚未做好转型的准备Mercer's 2024 Global Talent Trends Study unveils critical insights from over 12,000 global leaders and employees, highlighting the increasing importance of AI in productivity, discrepancies between executive and HR perceptions, the necessity of human-centric work design, and the growing challenges in trust, diversity, and resilience within the workforce. The study emphasizes the urgency of adapting talent strategies to foster greater agility and employee well-being amidst technological advances and shifting workforce dynamics.
美世今天发布了2024年全球人才趋势研究。该研究借鉴了全球 12,000 多名高管、人力资源主管、员工和投资者的见解，揭示了雇主为在这个新时代蓬勃发展而采取的行动。
“今年的调查结果突显了工作中的惊人转变，”美世总裁帕特·汤姆林森 (Pat Tomlinson) 表示。“他们指出，高管层和人力资源部门对于 2024 年业务发展的看法存在显着分歧，而且员工对于技术影响的看法也存在滞后。随着我们迎来人机团队的时代，组织需要将人置于转型的核心。”
生成式人工智能 (AI) 被视为提高生产力的关键
生成式人工智能能力的快速增长引发了人们对劳动力生产力提升的希望，40% 的高管预测人工智能将带来超过 30% 的收益。然而，五分之三 (58%) 的人认为科技进步的速度超过了公司对员工进行再培训的速度，不到一半 (47%) 的人认为他们可以通过当前的人才模式满足今年的需求。
“通过人工智能提高生产力是高管们最关心的问题，但答案不仅仅在于技术。提高员工生产力需要有意识的、以人为本的工作设计。”美世全球人才咨询主管兼该研究的作者 Kate Bravery 说道。“领先的公司认识到人工智能只是其中的一部分。他们正在从整体的角度来解决生产力下降的问题，并通过新的人机协作模式提供更大的敏捷性。”
寻找通向未来工作的可持续道路面临着挑战。四分之三 (74%) 的高管担心他们的人才的转变能力，不到三分之一 (28%) 的人力资源领导者非常有信心他们能够使人机团队取得成功。提高敏捷性的关键是采用技能驱动的人才模型，这是高增长公司已经掌握的。
员工信任度全面下降
2023 年，对雇主的信任度从 2022 年的历史最高水平下降，这是一个危险信号，因为研究表明信任对员工的精力、蓬勃发展感和留下来的意愿产生重大影响。那些相信雇主会为他们和社会做正确事情的人，表示自己正在蓬勃发展、具有强烈的使命感、归属感和被重视感的可能性是其他人的两倍。
近一半的员工表示，他们希望为一个令他们感到自豪的组织工作，一些公司的回应是优先考虑可持续发展工作和“良好工作”原则。鉴于公平薪酬（34%）和发展机会（28%）是员工今年留下来的主要驱动力，雇主有动力在未来一年在薪酬公平、透明度和公平获得职业机会方面取得更快进展。
在全球范围内，员工都清楚，归属感有助于他们成长，但只有 39% 的人力资源领导者表示，女性和少数族裔在其组织的领导团队中拥有良好的代表，只有 18% 的人表示，最近的多元化、公平性和包容性努力提高了员工保留率关键多元化群体。四分之三的员工 (76%) 目睹过年龄歧视。由于这些挑战加上持续的技能短缺，更多地关注包容性和满足员工的需求将有助于所有员工蓬勃发展。
未来几年，韧性将至关重要
最近在风险缓解方面的投资已获得回报，64% 的高管表示他们的业务能够承受不可预见的挑战，而两年前这一比例为 40%。通货膨胀等近期担忧严重影响高管的三年计划，但网络和气候等长期风险可能没有得到应有的必要关注。
建立个人韧性与企业韧性同样重要，五分之四 (82%) 的员工担心自己今年会精疲力竭。为员工福祉重新设计工作对于缓解这一风险至关重要，51% 的高增长公司（2023 年收入增长 10% 或以上）已经这样做了，而低增长同行中只有 39% 这样做了。
员工体验是重中之重
超过一半的高管 (58%) 担心他们的公司在激励员工采用新技术方面做得不够，三分之二 (67%) 的人力资源领导者也担心他们在没有改变工作方式的情况下实施了新技术解决方案。员工体验是今年HR的首要任务；这是一个值得关注的问题，因为蓬勃发展的员工表示雇主设计的工作体验能够发挥他们的最佳水平的可能性是普通员工的 2.6 倍。
人力资源部门在改善所有人的工作方面发挥着关键作用，但人力资源部门越来越有必要与风险和数字化领导者合作，以按要求的速度引入必要的变革。为了满足组织和员工的期望，96% 的公司计划今年对人力资源职能进行一些重新设计，重点是跨部门交付和领先的数字化工作方式。
投资者重视敬业的员工队伍
今年，美世首次收集资产管理公司关于组织的人才战略如何影响其投资决策的意见。近十分之九 (89%) 的人将员工敬业度视为公司绩效的关键驱动力，84% 的人认为“流失和燃烧”方法会损害商业价值。投资者还表示，营造信任和公平的氛围是未来五年建立真正、可持续价值的最重要因素。
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