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What’s keeping HR up? 5 key takeaways about changing priorities

HRExecutive

While hiring and retaining key talent again claimed the top spot among HRs challenges, human resources continues to broaden its aperture, seemingly driven by external shifts. In 2022, for example, nearly 50% of HR professionals surveyed were focused on hiring and retention, a figure that dropped to 36% the following year and 32% in 2024.

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HR Moves: MassMutual, Petco, and Uber announce new HR leadership

HR Brew

They’ve all announced new HR hires since the start of 2024. Ard, who will lead Bumble’s hiring strategies and company culture efforts, spent the majority of his decades in HR at Gap Inc., Holly May took over as Petco’s CHRO in early February, the company announced. Let’s take a look at these and other recent appointments.

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Interim chief HR officers: Why are they so popular today?

HRExecutive

The strategic nature of HR functions is becoming increasingly critical to business success today. The ensuing HR transformations, a new report finds, are driving a dramatic rise in the number of interim CHROs being asked to maintain continuity in times of change. year over year, from 2022 to the first half of 2024.

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The ‘secret sauce’ to great HR leadership? This CHRO has an idea

HRExecutive

I dont have a lot of my anxiety in my system, says Marshall, executive vice president and CHRO of global power management company Eaton. Its about not just accepting the status quoto move our organizations forward and our HR teams forward, we have to continually every year set a bar thats higher than we think we can reach, he says.

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Innovation at IBM: Announcing the 2024 HR Executive of the Year

HRExecutive

At the time, she envisioned the gig as a “quick stop” in HR, to get her professional feet wet and make some money before starting law school. Today, she sits in the CHRO office of the tech giant, overseeing the entire global people operations for the more than 250,000-person IBM workforce. LaMoreaux says.

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Why CHRO succession planning is getting more challenging

HRExecutive

Succession planning is imperative for C-suite positions, including the CHRO role. People are looking at the CHRO job when approached and saying, ‘Do I want that job? They’re kind of stepping off of that career track and saying, ‘I’m fine where I’m at’ or are leaving HR entirely to go do something different.”

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6 key realities for HR leaders in 2024

HRExecutive

According to a recent Accenture report , “89% of CEOs say the CHRO should play a central role in driving long-term profitable growth.” The role of the HR leader has changed radically—we’ve earned a seat at the table where the most important decisions are made. I couldn’t agree more.