Investment in HR technology continues to grow

Global investment in HR technology and software is continuing to grow, with 88% of EMEA businesses planning to spend the same or more on HR technology this year as last year, according to Towers...

Are bosses ready to deliver the digital workforce?

Artificial intelligence, robots and smart machines. Will employees welcome these powerful innovations into their workplaces? Do they constitute a threat to today’s work practices?

Ensuring your recruitment strategy moves with mobile

As technology takes over and our lives and jobs become increasingly mobile-oriented, recruitment for digital-savvy mobile roles has not kept pace.

Organisations are at risk because of digital delusion

If ever there was a word to spawn opinion without sufficient grounding in reality, digital is it

HR must prepare employees for disruptive technologies

We are looking at a fundamental shift in the way we think about the relationship between technology and work

HR must be aware of the ‘dark side’ of IT, says academic

HR must be aware of the “dark side” of technology and work with business and IT leaders to address it, according to Lancaster University Management School professor of information systems Monideepa...

Gratton: Technology has disrupted talent management

Technology has created serious “tension points” in talent management, professor of management practice at London Business School, Lynda Gratton said in her keynote address at the Hot Spots Movement’s...

Workers experiencing mobile phone-related guilt

HR policy must catch up with use of mobile phones at and for work, mobility service provider MobileIron has said.

Automation must not lead to ‘facelessness’

A human touch must be retained when automating transactional HR processes, University of Bradford head of operational HR Gary McFarlane told HR magazine.

Companies missing out on gamification benefits

Four in 10 HR directors report their organisation is ‘not at all interested’ in exploring the potential of gamification, despite over half (52%) of them expressing interest in using it to improve the...

HR needs to up its game

In 2011, Gartner predicted that by 2015 more than 70% of the biggest global companies would use gamification in at least one application. Now Capita has recently said only 41% of organisations are...

Employees lack the technology to do their jobs

More than half (55%) of employees believe they do not have access to the technology needed to do their jobs, according to research by Fujitsu.