Hybrid Working is Now Top of the Agenda for HR Leaders

(HR Services technology and digital HR transformation are key to its success)

In this month’s Dovetail News Roundup, we focus on:

• the new Hybrid working model that many organizations are introducing as a way of mitigating the risks of the COVID-19 pandemic, while having the advantages of face-to-face communication in the workplace, and offering employees the flexibility they want and are now accustomed to
• HR Services technology that enables the Hybrid workplace, while improving the employee experience and operational efficiency of HR service management (referring to Dovetail Software’s blog post, Universities Need Cloud HR Services Tech to Succeed in Hybrid Working)
• And considerations and tips for HR leaders looking to implement an HR Transformation program
  
  

Discover the News That is Affecting HR Today

(Includes HR and industry related blogs and articles on the New World of Work, Hybrid/Remote Work, New Staffing Models and Mandatory Vaccinations for Employees)

Discover the Latest HR News on AI in HR, Employee Experience, Ending Workplace Racism, and Employee Mental Health

This month's Dovetail Monthly News Roundup for HR brings you the following insightful and thought-provoking articles and reports that will keep you up to date with some of the most important topics in the HR world today.

Employee Experience is Top Priority for HR Leaders in 2021 and Beyond

Since COVID-19, Employee Experience has become even more important for HR leaders. According to a recent survey, 92% of HR leaders confirmed employee experience is a top priority in 2021. In particular, businesses are having to rethink the value, technology and culture they offer employees. Click here to read the full Forbes article.

PwC confirmed these findings in their latest CHRO Pulse Survey. Insights from the survey show that CHROs are considering how the world has changed and what employees need in order to thrive in it. Inclusion, the hybrid workplace and corporate social responsibility efforts are key topics. 94 human resource leaders from Fortune 1000 and private companies, along with other C-suite executives, weighed in on 2021 business priorities. Click here to find out more.

Several high profile HR leaders have given their thoughts in interviews about the future of work.

Discover the Latest Ideas on the NEW Workplace, Employee Benefits and Employee Health & Well-being

In this month’s Dovetail HR News Roundup, we highlight the latest workplace, employee benefits, and employee mental health ideas, that are a direct response to the effects of the pandemic.

Join the Conversation About Artificial Intelligence in HR

According to McKinsey, the global management consultancy, COVID-19 has supercharged the organization’s adoption of AI. In The future of work after COVID-19, McKinsey’s global survey of 800 senior executives found that two-thirds were increasing investment in automation and AI, either somewhat or significantly.

This month we focus on the latest AI developments in HR, leading with two recent blog posts by Dovetail Software: The Ultimate Guide to Conversational AI Chatbots for HR and What is Artificial Intelligence?. Tailored to an HR Services audience, these blogs explain what artificial intelligence is and how it can be used by HR Services teams to augment their capabilities, increase their efficiency and improve the employee experience.

With International Women’s Day taking place in March, we also take a look at women in AI, ethical AI challenges and ways to resolve problems of systematic bias.

HR, Employees and the ‘Pursuit of Happiness’

(includes research and insight by Dovetail Software, SHRM, London Business School, Deloitte and Hitachi)

“Many people have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.”
Helen Keller

Inspired by SHRM’s and London Business School’s (LBS) post, How to Be Happier at Work, this month’s Dovetail HR News Roundup focuses on employee happiness. Learning the ‘happiness skill’, and the links between employee happiness and productivity, the Future of Work and artificial intelligence (AI), are all explored as ways of boosting employee happiness and company performance.

Organizational Transformation, Employee Experience, HR Jobs of the Future, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) in HR

(includes research by Dovetail Software, Gartner, Deloitte, Oracle and McKinsey)

The yin and yang of life and work has changed forever. The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically changed the way we work, rest and play, which is unlikely to be reversed in the short to medium term. Mask wearing, remote working and virtual learning are our new daily habits. 

That’s why in this month’s Dovetail HR News Roundup we highlight the transformational effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on organizations,  their employees and HR. Employee Experience design thinking, new workforce environments, Employee Vaccination Tracking, and AI technology for HR, are just some of the ideas and concepts you'll find in this month's issue.

2021: A New Beginning

In this month’s Dovetail Monthly News Roundup, we would like to start by wishing you a very Happy New Year, and look forward to a new beginning in 2021!

This issue takes a look at:

• the do's and don’ts of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) strategic planning
• the Sapient Insights 2020 - 2021 HR Systems Survey whitepaper
• the emergence of “Superteams”, a trend identified by Deloitte in their 2021 Human Capital Trends Report, and the use of AI Chabots as HR virtual assistants for employees
• Brian Kropp’s (Gartner) predictions for HR in 2021

The Times They Are A-Changin'

Society is changing and businesses will have to too. That was one of the key messages at Gartner's virtual IT Symposium/Xpo EMEA held in November.

Speaking on Gartner’s Top Strategic Predictions for 2021 and Beyond, Daryl Plummer, Distinguished VP Analyst at Gartner, said that by 2024, 30% of major organizations will use a new 'voice of society' metric to act on societal issues and assess the impacts to their business performance. “Being tone deaf to societal issues can hurt, and a brand can go away overnight”, Daryl added, before mentioning the almost overnight demise of the Uncle Ben's brand, directly resulting from societal pressure.

"You better start swimming or you'll sink like a stone"
Bob Dylan

Recent dramatic changes in public (and employee) opinion around issues such as Public Health, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, and Climate Change, as well as large scale social and political unrest, are accelerating transformation within organizations, as businesses respond to the pressures for change.

In this month's issue of Dovetail's HR News Roundup, we take a closer look at the latest research and insight about the 'big' external pressures that are driving change within organizations today: