Top 10 HR Trends for the 2023 Workplace

Workplace expert Jeanne Meister recently published an article on Forbes.com titled, “Top Ten HR Trends for the 2023 Workplace.” She began, “As we enter 2023, the future of work has become the now of work. Many of the changes which started during the pandemic were accelerated and have become permanent aspects of our working lives.”

Here’s the list. For much more on each of the 10 trends, see the full article here. For a longer-term perspective, the article also includes her top trends lists for 2016 through 2022.

1) Employee well-being is a human imperative 

2) Skills-based hiring is on the rise as companies recruit for potential rather than degrees 

3) The future of work is flexibility for all employees 

4) Hybrid learning will force companies to reinvent their brick-and-mortar corporate academies

5) ESG reporting will expand beyond compliance to attract talent 

6) Human skills are the new hard skills for the future of work

7) Hybrid working is here to stay and success starts with defining it 

8) The future of the office will be to bring the off-site vibe on-site 

9) Humans and bots create a new blended workforce 

10) Burnout is a crisis that needs to be addressed

Jeanne Meister is Executive Vice President with Executive Networks, and the founder of the Future Workplace Academy, providing critical skill development and online courses to up-skill HR leaders and their teams. She is passionate about the future of work and working on a global research project on The Future of Working and Learning. Access Executive Networks’ “Global CHRO of the Future” research results here.