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Looking Ahead: The Biggest HR Trends in 2020

HR Digest

From welcoming flextime in the workplace to understanding how workforce analytics can impact business decisions, these are the biggest HR trends that you’ll see as we move into 2020. Human Resource is all about recruiting, mentoring and tending of the greatest assets of any company—human capital. Flextime Jobs.

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How to retain parents after parental leave

HR Digest

Do you offer a variety of work time models like flextime, part-time, job sharing or remote work? Volunteer Vision’s online mentoring program ‘eParent’ provides you with ideal support for this process: Mentors and mentees discuss various aspects of compatibility of professional life and family life in 8 digital sessions of 60 minutes.

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Microfinance Is Good for Women, but It's Only Part of the Solution

Harvard Business Review

Many companies also need to adopt more progressive policies regarding flextime, career stops, job sharing, and other alternative career paths. Hewlett-Packard, for example, offers a program in which employees provide mentoring services to about 25 talented individuals each year.

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Increase Workplace Flexibility and Boost Performance

Harvard Business Review

In fact, this is why most flextime arrangements mandate “core hours” for all employees. Mentoring and Development. This arrangement also means that, at times, the protégé can step in if needed, reducing the need for the mentor to be constantly present or on-call. Coordination Technology.

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Proof That Positive Work Cultures Are More Productive

Harvard Business Review

A Gallup poll showed that, even when workplaces offered benefits such as flextime and work-from-home opportunities, engagement predicted wellbeing above and beyond anything else. Ever had a manager or mentor who took a lot of trouble to help you when he or she did not have to? Employees prefer workplace wellbeing to material benefits.