7 HR Trends You’ll Wish You Read Before 2023

(But Will Still Help If You Left It Late)

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1 .  HR to start listening more (or at least show it is)

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When 85% of HR staff think they’re using feedback to improve the employee experience and only 50% of staff agree, you understand the issue pretty quickly.

The same Tivian report revealed that just 14% of people believe their employer uses feedback effectively to drive change.

2. Performance management to actually be about performance and development in 2023

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65% of HR Directors told Clear Review that their performance management process had been put on the back burner over this last year, while people development was at a three-year low as a key HR focus.

3. Finally settling on flexible working arrangements that work for everyone

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73% of employees now work in either a hybrid or fully remote setting, with nearly half (43%) working remotely full-time.

But there are still huge chasms between how remote and in-person employees work and learn. There's a 15% gap between in-person and remote employees when it comes to finding time to learn.

There's a 15% gap between in-person and remote employees when it comes to the challenge of finding time to learn.

4. A reassessment of company culture’s role and importance

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According to Gartner, just 24% of hybrid and remote workers feel connected to their company's culture.

And 63% of employees experiencing above-average turnover on their team believe that it’s become less worthwhile for them to socialise and build bonds, according to Capterra.

In January 2020, employees were ten times more likely to stay at a company for friendships than pay rises.

Now, employees ranked relationships with managers and colleagues last in the list of satisfaction factors.

5. Onboarding to finally get itself together (and an end to job description catfishing

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A fifth of employees felt misled by the original job listing. Over a quarter of remote workers surveyed said they’d been let down by poor onboarding.

Only half of all new hires said they felt productive and capable of doing their jobs. And 20% of new employees felt they’d been left isolated or alone during their onboarding.

6. Wellbeing being more than a webinar or week of support

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54% of UK workers are feeling work burnout, while more than half feel they have an average or poor work-life balance.

Another report revealed that 23% experienced sadness during the previous day, while 44% were highly stressed in the past 24 hours.

7. Building skills that can’t be bought or borrowed

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With the economic downturn, people are reviewing where they’re spending their money, and they have less budget to hire for the skills gaps they have or use freelancers or contractors.

"So essentially, the most cost-effective way for you to address those skills gaps is to invest in existing talent...

And that’s where upskilling and reskilling is the way to build those skills, rather than buying or borrowing to close skills gaps.”  Nelson Sivalingam

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