Forces at Work

whitePaper | March 21, 2023

Skills technology (tech) is a foundational capability in the talent (or HR) ecosystem. Beyond the technological capabilities, skills tech represents a shift in mindset, and a different approach to the relationship between skills/competencies and roles/career paths. An understanding of skills tech, and the innovative approach these solutions take, is paramount to furthering the movement toward “total talent intelligence,” and future organizational design.

whitePaper | February 7, 2023

Employees want to grow. It’s no longer a lifetime commitment to an employer, but if your people stay an extra year or two, everyone benefits. There is vested interest in career mobility that benefits both when done well.

whitePaper | May 5, 2021

Any good HR professional wants to be better. This begins with a desire to improve followed by a clear understanding what it requires to improve. Since 1987, we have chronicled what it means to be an effective HR.

whitePaper | December 5, 2022

More and more organizations are looking to optimize their use of labor – their single largest overhead – and minimize labor-related costs. Many organizations are replacing the stand-alone, often manual systems used to manage staff hours and working patterns with integrated software-driven Workforce Management (WFM) Systems that make the whole process of managing attendance, absenteeism, overtime, flexible working, scheduling and vacation leave considerably easier.

whitePaper | April 15, 2022

Due to the “Great Remote Work Experiment” that began in March 2020 when workplaces around the world rapidly shut down, work is changing faster than it has in a generation. As many people now return to the workplace and begin to experiment with hybrid work, a range of different outcomes is possible. Thankfully, researchers at Microsoft and from around the world have been investigating evolving hybrid work practices and developing technologies that will address the biggest new challenges while taking advantage of the biggest new opportunities.

whitePaper | June 22, 2022

Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) are on-chain organizations that utilize decentralized voting to coordinate pools of capital and people. A top priority for DAOs is to engage contributors (people), direct and inspire their work on the creation of new intellectual property, and compensate them for their work. DAOs are built to operate with far less top-down ownership, incentivizing community members to drive outcomes, and thereby promoting a broader diversity of initiatives and outcomes than traditional companies. This makes them appealing as an organizing structure for ecosystem-driven products and systems, such as decentralized finance platforms, community-led investment funds, creative mediums, and limitless other opportunities. However, in order to fulfill their potential, DAOs must operate within existing legal frameworks.