According to Bersin, providing Employees the opportunity for learning and development in the workplace has become a paramount attractor in the job market, particularly given the number of Millennials in the workforce and their focus on just that. It has been posited that today's youth will potentially have 70+ year careers, and they understand that their ability to grow, learn and progress is perhaps the most important driver of their future earnings potential and job satisfaction. Companies that focus their culture on career growth and learning, outperform their peers in innovation, long term growth, and employee retention.

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Topics: HR trends, Employee Retention, Human Capital Trends, The learning curve is the earning curve, Cloud e-Learning, LMS, self-developing, deloitte, artificial intelligence, Bersin's learning research, Josh Bersin

At this time of year, there are a lot of articles floating around which profess to know the top trends for HR during the coming year. Sometimes these articles are valid (and backed up by a significant amount of data), and sometimes there is a lot of crystal ball gazing going on. Ultimately, it is becoming more and more difficult to accurately predict future HR trends, however, there are a few annual reports that warrant investigation. One of those reports is Deloitte's annual Human Capital Trends report. The 2016 offering outlines the opinions and perspectives of 7,000 HR and business leaders. That's a significant amount of data gathered from a global cohort, so it is worthwhile taking a look at the picture those 7,000 respondents painted about the likely short and long-term future of business from the HR perspective.

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Topics: Culture and Values, Digital HR Software, HR trends, HR technology, Employee Engagement, Employee Retention, Human Capital Trends, deloitte, hr leaders

One of the most challenging areas for HR is Performance Management. It is perhaps, one of the least progressive areas in HR because it is one of the most challening to deploy and measure. Measuring performance against brand, culture and values through a social, democratic and horizontal system is where Subscribe-HR sees Performance Management heading in the future. The importance of getting this aspect of the HR scorecard right can been seen when calculating turnover costs.

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Topics: performance management, Crowdsourcing, Turnover Costs, Employee Retention