Create global inclusion and use tech to build your team
Thinking about how to get and stay ahead of HR trends
and the future of work in 2022? Here are two more trends to consider.
Diversity efforts in the workplace have increasingly become a central focus
for HR teams and companies over the years, but changes in how we hire and work
over the past 18 months offer fresh avenues for greater diversity for many
organizations. The increase in remote work and the availability of new
technology have given companies the ability to hire anywhere, bringing
together more people from different regions and backgrounds. Employers should
consider several important steps when looking to build diverse teams that
feel included and motivated.
Present: Diversity awareness | Future: An inclusive, global workforce
The explosion in remote work has expanded hiring possibilities in ways most of
us couldn’t have imagined a few years ago. Inclusion efforts are tied to
improved decision-making and shareholder returns, as well as increased
innovation. In Monster’s 2020 report, “How to Build a More Inclusive Hiring
Plan”, 80% of respondents said it’s either extremely or very important to have a robust diversity strategy to attract and retain talent, and 86% strongly value diversity efforts in the workplace.
Remote, asynchronous work and outsourced employment models have opened
up a global talent pool to include a wide range of people who might not ordinarily
have the ability to work for your company. People with disabilities or caregiving
responsibilities and people across different regions, time zones and cultures
can now bring their perspectives and skills to your teams. Geographic
diversity is made simpler now that workers don’t have to live near the office.
Today’s workforce can live anywhere they want, but tomorrow’s reality is using
remote to recruit all forms of diversity into the organization.
But there’s more to it than just hiring a coder from a different country. It’s
about building a culture of inclusion that provides opportunities, invites new
perspectives, and develops a broader understanding of diversity of life experiences.
Kelly Baker, Executive VP and CHRO at Pentair, highlights three pillars for
promoting inclusion in the workplace:
- A focus on fair hiring practices at every level
- Development and retention of diverse talent in leadership roles
- A focus on cultivating an environment that values differences, fairness and inclusion through Global Effectiveness training to strengthen manager capabilities across cultures, countries and languages
The business case for diversity—especially in top teams—is stronger than ever. Gender-diverse companies perform 15% better than the industry median, and
ethnically diverse companies perform 35% better. Hiring volume is set to
increase around the globe, with the U.K. alone looking at a 58% rise. The
U.S., India, Germany, Mexico and Southeast Asia are all expected to see jumps
of more than 50%.
With these sharp increases, implementing a soft hire-from-anywhere approach is
chasing yesterday’s trend. Instead, develop an aggressive strategy for
including a global spectrum of voices and perspectives, and partner with your
teams to make sure those perspectives are integrated into your company culture
and ways of working.
Present: Intuitive people decisions | Future: data-driven people decisions
It’s time to build for a radically diverse workforce, but how? People
decisions are often informed by past experiences and intuition, but today’s
rapid changes require stronger insights to get ahead of the curve. Between now
and 2023, expect to see a big rise in the use of data, insights and artificial
intelligence in making people decisions. It bears repeating: Invest heavily in
these technologies now in order to target the best candidates in the right
parts of the world, and keep those hires on board for the long haul.
Only 17% of organizations use artificial intelligence in their HR function. In 2022, that number is expected to grow to 30%. Today, 60% of C-suite executives don’t use people data to set financial objectives and 63% don’t look at people
data before making recommendations. Half don’t consider people data in
relation to cultural issues, leaving them in the dark about what their people
may truly want from their company. This means that most companies are missing opportunities to make sound decisions based on analytical insights and are instead relying on outdated practices, tribal knowledge or intuition.
Data-driven decisions help you focus and improve the impact your workforce has
on the business, source and recruit the right candidates, improve retention, and mitigate the high costs of turnover.
For example, Google used people analytics to strengthen their teams
and the people that managed the teams. Through regular surveys of managers and
their employees, Google was able to identify managers that were doing well and
managers who needed support in being more effective. However, they took this
information one step further and used the data to develop a rubric from which
they measure the potential effectiveness of managers. The data showed them
what traits and behavior managers needed to have to thrive at Google. And this
helped in recruitment and maintaining engaged managers and teams—and employee
engagement with an average participation rate of 90%.
Approaches like this are rare; however, companies can gain a rapid advantage
over 80% of global businesses by embracing technologies like people data,
analytics and advanced HRIS platforms.
Robust, diverse teams are necessary for tomorrow’s workscape, and it is
imperative to make a strong investment now so you can build those teams
. Remote work and data-driven technologies have made hiring people from
different regions, backgrounds, cultures and perspectives more accessible, and
if you don’t begin now to capitalize, you risk losing out on the profitability
and savings these workers will bring to your organization.
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