Opportunities and Challenges for HR leaders in 2021

HR experts are facing more challenges for the first time in history. A global pandemic, layoffs, mental health problems, social instability, and economic loss are the main concerns of HR services. Inappropriately, it seems that this disrupting period of workplace change will continue into 2021.

 

Flexible working

 

HR outsourcing services also understand that the flexible working hour is essential to address employees’ needs to make the balance in work and life and on the other side a firm needs flexible working for efficiency and productivity. Even when skilled people have spread across, knowledge can be brought to a single place for everybody to utilize and redesign the work model for enhanced awareness!

 

HR services help to schedule the training sessions and facilitate the workshops that will help their people as: 

• It encourages the employees to appreciate their opinion and acknowledge their answers during team discussions.
• Team discussions during training sessions help to give attention to the similarities and individual strengths across the team
• Creating a culture where everyone can feel valued, relevant, and part of a collective mission helps to generate ideas. 

 

Re-focus on Skills

 

According to the World Economic Forum, 42% of jobs will require different skills in the next three years and 1 billion+ worker will need reskilling by 2030 due to changes in technology and economic drivers. HR outsourcing services work for describing the employee’s capabilities to accurately evaluate and develop their talents:

• HR leaders truly assess the different roles of their employees that are evolved in the working environment.
• HR leaders predict a new role to replace those roles that could be affected by digitization. 
• Recall existing employees to preserve skills
• More focus to identify suitable candidates with adjacent skills who provide suggestions for career development and redeploy individuals.
• HR leaders are responsible for giving the opportunities to learn Machine Learning, RPA, Edge Computing, Artificial Intelligence & more, and also automate components of workflows and work processes.

 

Prediction of working remotely

 

The most surprising crisis enforced the corporates to move towards working remotely. Many firms especially IT companies decided to work from home since the epidemic started. Working remotely nurtures many issues at home which encourages digital transformation for enhancing productivity and efficiency. 

 

 

Balancing Mental Wellness through programs

 

HR leaders must give priority and take the initiatives to promote mental wellbeing apart from implementing practices like maintaining social distancing, private cabins, and more. According to HR leaders, organizations must do the following things: 

• Mental wellbeing programs should be conducted for employees for private clinical wellbeing counseling. 
• Promote the fixed working hours and availability of leaves to take holidays.
• Provide access for employees to Zumba, gym, yoga, and other ways of physical exercises.
• Considering employee benefits to encourage work-life balance.

 

In the ongoing year 2021, HR corporates need to adopt the technologies to learn about the latest trends in the market to build flexibility, resolution, acceptance, and enrich the workplace.