Is Your HR Position Going The Way of the Dinosaur?
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The HR Department of 2020:
6 Bold Predictions
Erin Osterhaus
Category: General HR
The human resources
department will disappear in a matter of years. All HR functions will be taken
over by software or outsourced. At least that’s what some are saying.
They’re wrong.
Rather than spell the end
of the human resources function, the experts predict these changes will provide
new opportunities for HR professionals to grow. Software Advice, a firm that
writes reviews and buyer’s guides
for HR software, interviewed nine industry analysts and practitioners to better
understand what will change and why, as well as find out how HR professionals
can prepare. Below is a brief summary. For the full article, click here.
Prediction
1: In-house HR will downsize and outsourcing will increase.
This prediction may seem
somewhat, well, predictable. But the reasons our experts give for the change
might surprise you: new technologies and increased employee participation in HR
processes.
Prediction
2: Strategic thinking will become in-house HR’s new core competence.
The leaner version of HR
that remains will need to reposition itself as a strategic partner within the
business. Over half the experts interviewed mentioned that HR needs to
increase its strategic value to the business--or else.
Prediction
3: The pendulum will swing back to the specialist.
The experts observe a
cyclical shift in the HR field. Every few years practitioners fluctuate between
the the independent specialists to the generalist practitioner. Recently
generalists have been in demand, but the pendulum might be swinging back
toward the specialist.
Prediction
4: HR will increasingly utilize analytics and big data to augment its value to
the firm.
In-house HR professionals
will need to embrace analytics and “big data” to become strategic leaders in
their companies, while new hires might be needed in the HR department to
accommodate the increased use of analytics.
Prediction
5: Managing a remote workforce will be the new norm.
Recent moves by companies
like Yahoo and Best Buy to end their remote work programs are the exception,
not the new normal. Without a doubt, HR will increasingly have to tackle the
challenge of managing a remote workforce.
Prediction
6: HR will need to become more like Marketing.
As the war for talent
continues, recruiters and the broader HR department will need to adopt tactics
that have traditionally belonged in the marketing field. HR will become the new
brand ambassadors to external talent.
Preparing
for 2020
What can current HR
professionals begin doing now to prepare for these predicted changes? The
experts all endorse one tactic: keep learning. Risk-taking and networking will
help, too.
BIOGRAPHY
Erin Osterhaus is the
Managing Editor for Software Advice’s HR blog, The New Talent Times. She
focuses on the HR market, offering advice to industry professionals on the best
recruiting, talent management, and leadership techniques.
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