This year, avoid spooky business in the office by brushing up on these important HR trends. #1: Unsuccessful New Hires Haunting Your Halls. Employee engagement has long been a key issue in workplace success, and recent data and analytics show that hasn’t changed. Don’t be kept in the dark by downloading The Greatness Gap: The State of Employee Disengagement White Paper. Skeletons in closets, magic disappearing acts, and people masquerading as someone else: Is Halloween coming or is it just the normal everyday stuff of HR nightmares? MORE

Top trend lists are a very popular in the new year, but what about action? Don’t get me wrong, trends are important. In order to be successful, we have to know more than the trend. And if there’s one knowledge topic to focus on this year, it would be human resource management analytics. (Editor’s Note: Today’s post is brought to you by our friends at Capella University. MORE

The author of the IDC white paper , Simon Ellis, points out how critical the cloud has become in gathering all this diverse information and employing analytics to turn the data into timely insights. “If we think of the broader networks, they simply won’t work efficiently and effectively without this ‘information loop’,” he writes. In the mean time, read the IDC white paper. MORE

Download the white paper and see how you can create an integrated, engaging employee experience using people analytics! Being self-employed, she does her best to stay on top of the current trends in the business world. HR Trends Talent ManagementApproach the possibility of allowing remote work with an open mind. Consider Your Company Policy. Communicate Openly. MORE

Analytics do the heavy lifting, providing insights about consumer behavior and trends that companies can use to their advantage. This new field is called people analytics. However, with the analytics space transitioning to cloud-based systems, these technologies have become more affordable. Read our white paper on company culture analytics Download Now. MORE

“Job hopping” is now the growing trend, and you can expect it to become only more prevalent as we move further into the 21st century. The fact of the matter is, millennials have different career priorities than previous generations, and these are a big driver for the current job hopping trend. HR Trends Talent ManagementBut why is that? Job hopping is here to stay. MORE

Unlike Yogi’s quotes, which adorn many a wall and office desk, the factors that influence the appeal, stickiness, impact and longevity of industry trends are a bit more complicated to hypothesize about. In the HR technology domain, for example, some trends take longer to get adopted and explode than others, even when the expected business impact is comparable. MORE

In fact, here are four trends that are on their way to becoming standard operating procedure for improved performance management and corporate learning: 1. Provide our managers with real-time access to reporting analytics and transcripts of learning activities. Download our white paper, “Performance Assessments in an Increasingly Mobile World,” which is available here. MORE

Workplace mobility is a rising trend in HR. Find out how you can use people analytics to create an integrated employee experience by downloading our new white paper. Download the white paper and see how you can create an integrated, engaging employee experience using people analytics! piercing issue in the workplace is hiring diversity. Friday Find MORE

Setting up a successful performance management strategy can be a challenge with changing trends and differing employee needs ahead of you. Download the white paper and see how you can create an integrated, engaging employee experience using people analytics! Managing a team is both challenging and rewarding. Image Credit: Quantum Workplace. HR Infographics MORE

Most of the people joining in this trend have left stiff, corporate jobs, where they felt trapped, overworked, demotivated and unappreciated. But what if the employee experience would acquiesce to some of the basic principles of the digital nomad trend, and embrace job meaningfulness, flexible working, collaborative environments and idea generation? Applying design thinking in HR. MORE

Find out how you can use people analytics to predict, manage and measure the impact of HR operations by downloading our new white paper. Another disruptive trend is telecommuting or remote working. According to Global Workplace Analytics and the Telework Research Network , regular work-at-home, among the non-self-employed US population, has grown by 103% since 2005. MORE

Find out how you can use people analytics to predict, manage and measure the impact of HR operations by downloading our new white paper. 9 Key Considerations for Building a Change Management Framework. The Employee Engagement Trends You Need to Know [Infographic]. Welcome to another weekly round-up of the most shared and talked-about articles from the world of HR! MORE

Data and analytics. Key metrics can be accessed for real-time analytics and reporting. To learn more, download the Obtaining Executive Buy-In for Employee Rewards and Recognition Programs White Paper. Donald Clifton’s book How Full Is Your Bucket revealed the number one reason people leave their jobs is because they don’t feel appreciated. So where is the roadblock? MORE

Another busy week for HR content writers who took on some of the latest trends and workplace issues and detailed them in these inspiring articles. Tracking the Trends in Bringing Our Own Devices to Work. BYOD is still being referred to as a new workplace trend when, in fact, it has become the new norm for many workplaces all over the world. We couldn’t agree more. Friday Find MORE

Traditionally, HR was always viewed  as a paper-intensive, non-innovative area, where salary decisions are made, people get hired or fired and where team building sessions are organized. Therefore, a good question might be: what are the technological innovations that will drive human resource technology trends in the future? HR Trends Talent ManagementAdvanced Machine Learning. MORE

New research from Adobe on new workplace trends shows that US employees love to work. Find out how you can use people analytics to predict, manage and measure the impact of HR operations by downloading our new white paper. Download the white paper and see how you can create an integrated, engaging employee experience using people analytics! MORE

Benefits of Thought Leadership Thought leadership takes command of trends and uses them to best advantage by creating strong brands, locating and working with influential industry influencers and building networks of like-minded associates. This demonstrates true leadership instead of just following the latest trends. Thought leaders drive new trends instead of following them. MORE

With the new technological advancements in people analytics, it’s becoming increasingly important for HR to strategically integrate with the business and operate efficiently. Now, thanks to data analysis, HR is able to spot trends, make predictions, create a roadmap to succeed and have conversations with other C-suite members of the company based on solid facts.”. Image via Stocksnap.io MORE

But all that data—also called Business Intelligence or BI—is a useful tool for understanding both current conditions and future trends. Download the white paper and see how you can create an integrated, engaging employee experience using people analytics! What do you really know about the data that your business collects? How do you store it, or manage it? MORE

48.5% of HR professionals consider attending conferences highly valuable with respect to staying knowledgeable about Human Resource management – more than webinars, print publications and white papers.” – 2015 fisher VISTA HR Buyers Survey . Seth Mattison (right) is a writer and global trend spotter of the shifts happening in the new world of work. Important people. MORE

We push paper. People are more than paper pushing; they are the keys to corporate capacity. Download the white paper and see how you can create an integrated, engaging employee experience using people analytics! HR Trends Talent ManagementAs a former CHRO (Chief Human Resources Officer), I’m familiar with the role. This is the old HR. We coach. MORE

As an HR professional, it’s important to stay up to date with the latest trends and news in the field. Find out how you can use people analytics to predict, manage and measure the impact of HR operations by downloading our new white paper. Tech Trends That Will Change How We Work Forever. Welcome to a new week of HR and workplace wonders! Happy weekend! MORE

Following the digital trend, Deloitte and Columbia University’s ‘Global Trends in HR’ course for HR professionals promotes the idea of transforming HR’s approach through design thinking, stating that 79% of senior professionals now rank it as a high priority when meeting talent challenges. Adaptive learning. There is no more one size fits all solution to L&D. Talent Management MORE

This isn’t a new trend by any stretch of the imagination. According to the Paperless Project , around 40% of an employee’s time is spent searching for paper records. Digitising paper documents and storing them as searchable, electronic files makes retrieval much easier. Everything from communication to file retention can now be streamlined with the help of technology. MORE

According to a study cited in this white paper, Knowledge Fuels Digital Transformation – Digital Transformation Revolutionizes Learning , 83 percent of respondents said their companies lack the skills needed for digital transformation. SAP has identified five primary areas essential for digital transformation: analytics, applications, business, technology, and architecture. MORE

The opening paragraph of this short white paper sets the stage for some interesting data points: “With countless recruiting-related technologies and assessment options on the market, business leaders might expect that measuring the long-term impact of talent acquisition is a practice that’s well-established and effective. 200 hiring managers from across the U.S. Makes sense to me. MORE

Find out how you can use people analytics to predict, manage and measure the impact of HR operations by downloading our new white paper. After the interview is over, try to encourage leaders and managers to notice trends and make changes based on those trends. It is an awful thing when an excellent employee leaves. Exit interview basics. Industry status. Only 18%. MORE

We’ve all seen those reports, academic treatises and white papers. Here’s one of the good ones: Randstad Sourcerght ’s 2016 Talent Trends Report. The report organizes Randstad’s findings into 5 themes, and each theme has a number of trends that their research has identified. Each trend takes a page, and at the end of each theme there is theme/survey summary. MORE

According to the 19th annual Sierra-Cedar 2016–2017 HR Systems Survey White Paper , which was released at the show: 42% of organizations plan to increase their spending on HR technology. People analytics can provide a “fitbit” type manager’s dashboard helps keep employees connected. Hiring and Recruiting all industries conferences hiring trends reference checkingWe’re back from a terrific HR Technology conference which took place October 4-7 in Chicago. Congratulations to the team at HR Executive. 20% expect to change one of their major systems in the next year. MORE

If you’re already successful in attracting exceptional talent and are now focusing on engaging and retaining it, download our latest white paper on how you can leverage people analytics to create amazing employee experiences. Download the white paper and see how you can create an integrated, engaging employee experience using people analytics. via SHRM. MORE

As a term, customer-centricity became a trending expression when organizations started adopting customer relationship management, due to its frequent use by vendors of CRM software. Get practical ideas on creating an engaging employee experience from our new white paper. The “war for talent” is projected to be one of the top employee engagement trends/challenges in 2016. MORE

We must become more comfortable gathering more data points (our company’s 10k, market data and surveys, customer satisfaction information, social media marketing data, white papers, industry analyses, etc.) Download the white paper and see how you can create an integrated, engaging employee experience using people analytics! HR Trends Talent Management MORE

This piece of writing will look into the background screening trends for 2016. 1. The trend is set to continue in 2016. 2. There has been an emerging trend of outsourcing many services by companies and businesses. Download the white paper and see how you can create an integrated, engaging employee experience using people analytics! HR Trends MORE

In this week’s #FridayFinds edition, we’ll be looking at trending topics such as employee learning and development, recruiting and retaining top talent, technology and flexibility in the workplace. Many of these trends are constantly mentioned throughout our own articles, as industry experts and HR professionals struggle to better understand and manage them, on a day-to-day basis. MORE

Business owners, in particular, have been significantly affected by this trend and indeed, many entrepreneurs use software these days to save time, money, and energy throughout their day. Find out how you can use people analytics to predict, manage and measure the impact of HR operations by downloading our new white paper. Recruitment. Shift scheduling. And more. MORE

Manufacturers have to cope with two overlapping trends: the variety of products is constantly increasing and has more than doubled in the past 15 years, and, in parallel, product lifecycles have gotten about 25% shorter. Companies should create a live business operation with advanced data and analytical skills to use the full potential of IoT. Connecting the shop floor. Conclusion. MORE