News and Opinion for HR, Talent and Leaders
For many employees, the summer holidays represent a chance to recharge, spend time with family or finally take that long-awaited vacation. For HR teams, however, the season often brings a familiar set of challenges. Annual leave requests pile up, managers compete for limited cover, recruitment slows, and employee engagement can dip as teams operate with […]
Despite mounting concerns about the global economy, employees continue to feel confident about their own careers, workplaces and ability to adapt to change, according to SHRM‘s latest Global Employee Monitor. The Q2 2026 report, based on responses from 5,747 workers across 26 countries, paints a picture of a workforce that remains resilient even as economic […]
For too long, we’ve accepted the idea that careers follow a predictable path: build momentum in your twenties and thirties, peak in your forties, and gradually slow down from there. Fortunately, reality tells a very different story. In episode 901 of the HRchat Podcast, I had the privilege of speaking with three remarkable professionals whose […]
AI Can’t Fix Bad HR Data: What HRchat Episode 900 Reveals About the Future of HR Reaching 900 episodes of the HRchat Podcast gave me an opportunity to reflect on how much the HR profession has changed over the past decade—and, perhaps more importantly, how much hasn’t. Since launching the show almost ten years ago, […]
For years, HR has been obsessed with dashboards. Every new platform promised another colourful visualisation. Every board meeting demanded another report. Every quarterly review seemed to generate another metric to monitor. But what if we’ve been optimising the wrong thing? That was the central message from Ankita Poddar, speaker, blogger, mentor and Senior Human Resources […]