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2025: the hr trends that'll make you go 🤯
Because December is the perfect month to organise and prepare
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Happy Cyber Monday (that’s still a thing, right?) HR friends!👋
We hope our American readers had a relaxing weekend and let’s get this last month of the year off to a great start!
With 2025 coming fast, our topic today is the key HR trends that we need to be aware of next year🧠
We hope this sparks some ideas for your business, and we’ll be in touch with more HR idea-sparking nuggets, tomorrow.
In Today’s Edition
💆 Key HR Trends To Prepare For Next Year
🛋️ The Break Room: Are your team prepared for the big changes afoot?
📚 Human Readsources: Companies resist remote work despite proven benefits, Immigration changes may disrupt skilled worker hiring, UK Companies adjusting probation periods for day-one rights.
Prepare to thrive in ‘25
All signs forecast some big changes afoot for HR teams globally, in the next 12 months.
From AI reshaping everything we do to the never-ending talent wars, we're seeing seismic shifts in the landscape and our processes.
Today we want to break down the key trends that'll actually matter for us in HR, and some prep work we can do in December so we can hit the ground running on Jan 1st.
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💆 Key HR Trends To Prepare For Next Year
We need to get comfortable being uncomfortable next year. Whether it's implementing AI in our recruiting processes, rethinking our compensation strategies, or building skills-based career pathways, 2025 is calling us to be bold.
Below are the key trends we're forecasting and some links to read more in your own time. We'd also love to hear what you all think? Big year ahead, or just the standard end of year hype?😂
- 🤖 Generative AI integration across HR functions, from recruitment to employee experience
- 🎯 Skills-based hiring approach replacing traditional experience-first methods
- 🌐 Increased cross-metropolitan and remote workforce opportunities
- 💰 Enhanced focus on pay equity and transparency compliance
- ⚖️ New wage-and-hour regulations, including potential 32-hour workweek
- 🔄 Work-life balance boundaries in remote settings
- 📊 AI governance and ethical frameworks implementation
- 👥 Talent shortages due to immigration policies
- 🤝 Human-AI collaboration becoming standard in workplace
- 🔄 Shift of gig workers back to traditional employment
- 📈 Enhanced employee well-being programs and benefits
- 🎓 Increased focus on upskilling and reskilling initiatives
- 📱 Digital transformation of HR processes
- 🛡️ Corporate responsibility filling gaps in government oversight
🔗 Relevant links
👀 TLDR
Skills-based hiring leading the charge and AI continues to reshape how we work and hire. Organizations are splitting into two camps: those stuck in old ways and those embracing transparency and flexibility. Time to get ahead by updating our playbook and processes.
⚡ Takeaway and Try
- 🎯 Start a "skills inventory" this week - have each team member list their top 3 skills that aren't in their job description but add value to their work
- 🤖 Schedule a 30-minute team discussion about where AI could help (or hurt) your current HR processes - focus on one painful manual task you'd love to automate
- 💰 Pull up your company's job postings and count how many include salary ranges - if it's not 100%, draft a proposal for why transparent ranges should be standard
- 🎓 Create a simple "skills passport" template where employees can document new skills they're learning (both formal training and on-the-job experience)
- 🌟 Ask your team this question: "If we were building our HR function from scratch today, what's the first thing we'd do differently?" - collect anonymous responses
☕ The Break Room: What's Your Take?
How prepared do you feel for the forecasted trends coming in 2025? |
📚 Human Readsources
🏢 Remote Work Surges Despite Corporate Office Push (HR News) - Remote work increases productivity and employee satisfaction despite corporate pushback.
⚖️ US Immigration Curbs Could Strain High-Skill Talent Pipeline (HR Dive) - Immigration restrictions may disrupt hiring of skilled foreign workers.
📊 UK Labour Party's Day One Rights Sparks Probation Period Changes (HR News) - Companies plan probation changes due to new employee day-one rights.
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