In Part one of this Blog, we explored some of the characteristics of Human Era brands as outlined in the report by Hill Holiday and Lippincott. Now let’s dive a little deeper and start thinking about how the role of Human Resources will need to evolve in order to contribute to company, brand and people development in the Human Era. 

According to the report, brands that lead in creating and aligning ‘experience’ with ‘story’ produce measurable growth of 4% above and beyond their counterparts in delivering shareholder value. These companies enable employees to become living, breathing examples of the company’s values through providing customers with an experience that actually matches the words on paper. The overall effect - alignment with values creates value!

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Topics: HR in The Human Era, The Human Era, the future of hr

Just as Nietzsche’s exclamation that ‘God is dead,’ once heralded a significant shift in the Western cultural paradigm, a new report by Hill Holiday and Lippincott declares that the ‘Institutional Era’ is also dead and has paved the way for a new way of doing business, ‘The Human Era.’

This two-part blog series explores the fundamentals of The Human Era, and outlines the new model for building trusted connections in business. It includes an investigation of what brands need to do to embed these models within their values and processes, as well as exploring the role of Human Resources in The Human Era.

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Topics: HR in The Human Era, The Human Era, the future of hr

Here at Subscribe-HR, we recently discovered a fabulous report that we believe encapsulates the future of doing business so well, that it has inspired us to pause for a serious rethink about the future of HR.

The report was created by Hill Holiday and Lippincott and is called 'Welcome to The Human Era.'

We highly recommend that you read the report - it will really get you thinking!

It certainly got us thinking and has inspired us to make a commitment to putting the ‘Human’ back in Human Resources.

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Topics: HR in The Human Era, Survey, The Human Era

It's safe to say that the future of Cloud computing lies in building innovative, multi-tenant, SaaS ecosystems, but what, exactly, is an SaaS ecosystem, you might ask?

The HR and IT teams at Lonely Planet have recently broken new ground in this territory, and we're proud to share with you our part in the SaaS ecosystem they have adapted to service their software needs across multiple business functions.

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Topics: HR Cloud Computing, e-HR Cloud, HR Cloud, Cloud-Based Software, Cloud computing, SaaS and HR, e-Recruitment Software, SaaS, Multi-Tenant Ecosystem, Core-HR, SaaS Ecosystem

Here at Subscribe-HR we believe in sharing the love. That’s why we recently joined forces with the knowledgeable and super helpful team at Software Advice to create a blog for you based in their annual research into Social Recruitment.

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Topics: social recruiting, social recruitment, e-Recruitment Software, E-Recruitment, Social Media Recruitment

Organisational restructuring is a common occurrence in the current economic conditions. It can happen for many reasons – new business acquisitions, low business performance, market conditions or simply to stay relevant, to name a few. Regardless of the cause of restructures, the process of restructuring is complex, and can make or break a company. In this week's HR Blog, we examine restructure from an HR best practice perspective in an effort to understand the key concerns for HR managers.

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Topics: Workforce Management, Payroll, organisational restructure, HR Manager role, HR employee retention, Payroll Outsourcing, HR Software as a Service, hr software, Employee Engagement, Top 100 HR Blogs, Cloud HR Software, HR blog, Salary restructuring

Social Media and Mobile were the two buzzwords of HR last year. But technology evolves and so does the industry.

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Topics: mobile recruitment, HR trends, HR technology, social HR

Let’s go back in time for a second, to the year 2000. Your HR team is busy getting through a lot of paperwork, recruiting for new employees, preparing reports and managing employee information. You are reading through several reports. There’s data about staff turnover, the number of hours worked this week and absenteeism rates. The reports also look into how long employees stay with the organisation on average, diversity of employees and promotion rates amongst different roles.

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Topics: HR Efficiencies, HR Data, HR Metrics, HR Managers