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As strategic leaders, CHROs play a central role in aligning human capital strategies with broader organizational goals, as they also equip their organizations to anticipate and adapt to emerging challenges. SHRM’s new CHRO Priorities and Perspectives report examines the key strategic goals of CHROs in 2025, the range of challenges they face, and their visions for the future of work.
The Top 10 People + Strategy Articles for 2024
As we flip the calendar to a new year, we're taking a look back at the People + Strategy Brief's most-read articles of 2024. This top 10 list highlights a year of intense change, conflict, and shifts in the workforce.
As we mark the first 100 days of the presidential administration, we sit down with Emily M. Dickens, chief of staff, head of government affairs, and corporate secretary for SHRM. The discussion highlights the pressing issues HR professionals face today, including the impact of executive orders, immigration policies, workforce education gaps, and the importance of inclusive hiring practices.
Economic, technological, and social changes mean the workplace of tomorrow will look very different than it does today. The Spring 2025 edition of the People + Strategy journal highlights how organizations are preparing to future-proof their workplaces by redesigning roles, realigning cultures, and rethinking work for a new era.
Most HR executives anticipate gains in employee engagement and productivity over the first six months of 2025, but they also say talent and total rewards are likely to get more expensive. View the big-picture takeaways from SHRM’s quarterly CHRO Employment Outlook survey, plus the CHRO Economic Outlook and Hiring & Retention Difficulty Indexes.
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Trends & Thought Leadership
SHRM’s new CHRO Priorities and Perspectives report examines the key strategic goals of CHROs in 2025, the range of challenges they face, and their visions for the future of work. The report was based on insights collected in December 2024 from 212 CHROs spanning diverse organizational sizes and industries
SHRM’s senior labor economist breaks down the federal civilian workforce, by occupation, location, age, length of service, and education level, and assesses the layoffs' implications on the broader labor market.
As 2025 gets underway, CEOs are facing a confluence of pressures—from advancing technologies to new labor market dynamics to an uncertain political climate—that will require strategic foresight and strong collaboration with HR leaders.
SHRM research shows the modern C-suite is expanding and becoming more diverse, but the third and final part of The Evolution of the C-Suite report series uncovers new paths to an organization’s top ranks. The number of C-suite roles is expanding to include a broader range of positions. At the same time, organizations are becoming more cautious, increasingly favoring proven executives for these key positions over first-time leaders.
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