Digital Transformation and Your Workforce

whitePaper | February 6, 2020

As the focus on employee engagement has grown over the past several decades, an important point is often overlooked: Engagement is an outcome, the result of the entire employee experience. It is one metric, alongside many others, that helps us uncover opportunities for improving the total work experience. The employee experience is defined by everything from the physical work environment to the relationship between employees, management, and executives, and even includes factors not directly connected to the job—health, finances, family, and social life—all of which impact employees’ total well-being.

whitePaper | December 10, 2022

You want to inspire your employees to do their best work. And according to many HR leaders, the best way to make that happen is to link performance with compensation. That’s the theory, and one of the traditional arguments for incentive-based approaches to performance management.

whitePaper | July 20, 2023

We live in a world that is undergoing a complete structural transformation. As technology continues to advance and job profiles become more fluid, HR managers face a talent transformation that is equally fundamental to keep pace.

whitePaper | February 16, 2020

The focus on human capital and talent in corporate governance is intensifying, as more stakeholders led by large institutional investors seek to understand how companies are integrating human capital considerations into the overarching strategy to create long-term value. After all, a company’s intangible assets, which include human capital and culture, are now estimated to comprise a significant portion of a company’s market value. At the same time, there is an ongoing cultural shift brought about by new generations of workers, digitization, automation and other megatrends related to the future of work. In this new era, it is critical for management teams and boards to keep pace with this transformation and consider redefining long-term value and corporate purpose. Creating value for multiple stakeholders, including employees, will ultimately help build and sustain shareholder value over the long term.

whitePaper | January 10, 2020

Technology is becoming more cognitive, more reactive and most importantly, more human. As tech evolves to meet our every need, we need it to learn and grow on its own; to work with us to create a more effective outcome. So, how exactly is technology changing? And how is it helping us in the workplace? Some specific types of technology have come to help, or even replace, traditional human roles. Virtual or AI assistants (Artificial Intelligence Assistants), for example, can aid us in our everyday working lives, and are often taking on a more human presence by cracking jokes or reacting in a more colloquial way.

whitePaper | June 2, 2022

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