人力资源技术企业发展迅速-收购势不可挡文/Julia Qiu
译/杨喆
人力资源科技是一个庞大的领域,它几乎涉及到全球范围内从招聘到绩效评估的各个层面,据相关信息估算,该市场的价值约高达4000亿美元。在过去两年里,风投和私人股本投资者在这个市场中投入了近20亿美元,仅2017年前七个月里就投入了9亿美元。
大量新进企业涌现带来的冲击,使得现有企业不得不想尽办法,在竞争日益激烈的市场中捍卫自己的地位,这也进一步促使人力资源技术整合的新纪元开启。
截至目前为止,今年已经出现了许多大规模的人力资源技术收购:日本人力资源巨头Recruit Holdings宣布以12亿美元收购了美国雇主点评网站Glassdoor,促成了最大的一笔收购;年初时,ADP收购了Workmarket(该公司为雅虎和纽约时报等提供自由职业者管理系统);Adecco以逾4亿美元收购了General Assembly。6月初,Workday宣布收购旧金山公司Rallyteam。
这些巨头终于意识到,充满活力的初创企业正在不断创新,他们正秉持着“要么吞并,要么被吞并”的心态,活跃在人力资源科技的生态系统里。
但这种典型的“新旧碰撞,而后吞并以维持新平衡”的情况,并非是涌现出如此多收购的唯一原因。
实际上,人力资源创新是宏观形式所趋,它不断的改变社会对于工作的定义。你可以把人力资源技术看作是一个“堆栈”,一些通用的范畴则解释了员工所经历的每一环节。
一般来说,它包含(1)招聘 (2)入职 (3)学习与发展 (4)工资与福利 (5)绩效管理与反馈 (6)人力资源信息系统(HRIS)。当然,每个目录中还有其下更多的子目录 ;时至今日,“堆栈”中的特定垂直领域已经相当商业化了,所以最好的机会在这些领域之外。
招聘是值得一提的领域,在过去几年中,自由职业成为一个新趋势,流动办公也更普遍。得益于快速的全球化,和更为高效便捷的通讯,人们不必再朝九晚五,或者待在办公室才能工作。
能与自由职业者合作,或通过远程、移动办公吸引并留住人才的技术,都极大地引起了我的兴趣。一些较为较著名的创业公司,比如Toptal、Hackerone和Slack也都致力于此(它们各有所长,业务也不尽相同)。这是一个有诸多细微差别的人力资源区域,但重要的是在其中区分各种因素,例如垂直特定平台与一般平台、封闭市场与开放市场、企业与中小企业客户、熟练与非熟练工人、长期项目与短期工作。
在欧洲也有公司在做类似的事情,比如法国的Side和Comet,以及德国的Gronda。这三个都是自由职业者平台,但却在招聘类型和场景上各有不同。Side是一个随需应变的平台,它主要通过学生的力量来完成一些简单的任务,而Comet试图通过一个包罗万象的自由职业者“OS”(即社区、活动和一套支持工具和服务)来吸引更多的技术人才。Gronda则在社交媒体渠道迎合了服务业的需求,推广了人才的同时也建立了行业信誉。
招聘吸引人的另一部分,在于如何更好地利用数据来吸引人才。公司怎样才能不仅仅是吸引人们投递简历,而是能进一步了解候选人,且让他们在面试过程中的每一个环节都参与进来呢?柏林Heyjobs等初创企业将目标市场程序化,以便更好地了解求职者,而 Entelo则利用人工智能,在全球范围内寻找被动求职者(即那些没有积极寻找新职位的人)。
一旦候选者申请职位,相关技术就会促使之后的每一个步骤都更有意义。瑞典的Teamtailor和英国的Beamery是我最喜欢的两家公司。前者将传统的求职者跟踪系统(ATS)技术提升到了一个新的高度,以帮助雇主创建品牌网站,提供顶级的求职者体验。后者正在构建一个求职者CRM平台,以优化求职者的重新聘用流程和职位宣传。
另一个瞩目的领域是文化与参与度,回顾以前可以发现,由于其未有明确的定义及衡量标准,许多公司便忽略了这一因素。然而,随着千禧一代的劳动力越来越多,而且(如前所述)员工有更多的机会从事自由职业或跳槽,企业再也无法将员工情绪当做儿戏了。毕竟,对于大多数职位而言,找到和培训一名新员工的成本,是远超过维持现有员工的积极性和敬业度所需的成本。Cultureamp和Glint等公司在这方面处于领先地位,它们为各级员工提供实时反馈工具,并为管理者提供可操作的见解和分析。在欧洲,类似的解决方案也在出现,包括丹麦的Peakon和法国的 Jubiwee,虽然每个公司应对员工敬业度的方式有所不同,但一致的的是,它们都将员工视为利润最大化者、而非成本项目。
2018年已经过去了大半,有一件事不言而喻:技术驱动的趋势会继续改变未来的工作,这种改变伴随着收购——不可避免的行业整合,当然还有新旧重组。这一切将会带来许多机会,人力资源技术初创公司也参与其中,他们不断的影响变革,也使得行业巨头为之瞩目。
Julia Qiu is Associate Partner of Mosaic Ventures, a London-based Series A-focused fund.
原文链接:HR tech is evolving quickly — more acquisitions are on the way
Workday观点:如何解决企业未来的人才? Taking the Next Steps for Tomorrow's Talent
作者:Leighanne Levensaler,workday高级副总裁,企业战略,工作日兼董事总经理兼Workday Ventures联席主管
文章导读:
我和一群商业和教育领袖,参加了在纽约举行的彭博下一个论坛(Bloomberg Next forum)。这次论坛的主题是:在如此大的变革中,我们如何才能更好地培养和支持我们的员工队伍。
它涵盖了一系列挑战:从如何让毕业生更好地为工作做好准备,到如何在人工智能和自动化时代让在职员工重新掌握技能,再到企业和教育工作者如何更好地合作。
在Workday与彭博资讯(Bloomberg Next)密切合作的原因是积极参与寻找解决这些复杂问题的方法。
我们在纽约进行了富有洞察力和启发性的讨论,以下是一些想法:
首先解决当地的问题
我们的世界面临着与劳动力发展有关的重大挑战。最好从当地开始。
例如,
是否有社区大学或贸易学校提供课程,让工人为预期的技能转变做好准备?
您的组织是否可以扩大与当地高等教育学校的沟通,让学生更好地掌握他们所需要的技能?
随着不断的创新,所需技能也不断变化。在Workday,与社区内的大学合作,让技术专家担任客座讲师,帮助学生为现实世界做准备。
寻找外部人才的新来源
企业说他们找不到需要的人才。但问题是否源于只招具有特定高等教育学位或工作经验的候选人?公司需要考虑他们是否过度要求实行纯种招聘。
在Workday,我们已经取得了巨大的成功,这些人才并没有遵循从高中到大学再到职业生涯的传统道路,但事实证明,它们都是出色的同事。多元化和包容性的员工队伍会让工作场所更快乐,并带来更大的商业成果。
从内部来源
一些最优秀的人才不一定能充分发挥他们的潜能或提供充分发展潜能的机会。这就是为什么真正了解自己的才能至关重要。
具体做法:通过定期使用技术来盘点你的员工和他们的技能,并建立一种流动和机会的文化。
拥抱创新的速度
创新对我们所有人来说都是一件好事,但它给劳动力发展带来了挑战。随着不断的创新,所需技能也要不断变化。
问题是,没有很多的公司愿意在重新培训技能中投入更多资金。在Workday和Bloomberg Next的调查中,半数受访企业预计,在应对新兴技术对劳动力影响的计划时,都面临预算紧张。
只有30%的企业和39%的教育工作者表示,他们正在合作帮助员工重新技能和重新培训。
我们可以在如何共同应对创新的影响方面更具创新性。另一个想法是:如何与教育机构的研究人员合作,帮助定义未来在不同行业中的角色?
我们都需要持续学习。学习如何去了解比去了解更好。
英文原文:
By Leighanne Levensaler, Senior Vice President, Corporate Strategy, Workday & Managing Director and Co-Head, Workday Ventures
I recently joined a group of business and education leaders for a Bloomberg Next forum in New York that focused on how we can work together to best nurture and support our workforces in the midst of so much change.
Aptly named Tomorrow’s Talent, the forum covered a number of timely challenges, ranging from how we can better prepare graduates for the workplace, to how we can reskill current workers in the age of artificial intelligence and automation, to how businesses and educators can better collaborate.
Knowing that people are the heart of every enterprise, we at Workday are passionate about being an active participant in finding the solutions to these complex issues. That’s why we partnered closely with Bloomberg Next on the event, including a study that surveyed business and education leaders’ views on these topics and more. Not surprisingly, the findings confirm there’s a lot more work to do.
So where do we start? I shared some ideas in a blog prior to the forum. Following our insightful and inspiring discussions in New York, here are some additional ideas.
Solve Locally First
Our world faces significant challenges related to workforce development. We’d all like a systematic macro answer. The reality is that these problems are far too broad and complex to be addressed with a single universal solution. It’s best to start working locally to learn and gain momentum.
For example, are there community colleges or trade schools that offer classes that could prepare workers for an anticipated shift in skill sets? Are there local higher education feeder schools that your organization could broaden the dialogue with on how to better prepare students with both the hard and soft skills they need?
With constant innovation comes the constant change of needed skills.
At Workday, we’ve partnered with universities in our communities to have our technologists serve as guest lecturers and help students prepare for the real world. I would encourage all organizations to explore these types of opportunities, because as one participant said, “If you’re sitting still, you’re falling behind.”
Seek Out New Sources of External Talent
Businesses say they can’t find the talent they need. But could the problem stem from always returning to the same pond to fish—a pond that only has candidates with specific types of higher education degrees or job experiences? Companies need to consider whether they are practicing pedigree hiring by over-credentialing job requirements. A willingness to learn “how” is a stronger attribute than a willingness to learn “what,” especially in today’s rapidly changing world.
What’s more, pedigree hiring works against an organization’s efforts to create a more diverse and inclusive workforce. At Workday, we’ve had great success partnering with organizations such as Year Up and Opportunity@Work to gain talent that didn’t follow the traditional path from high school to college to career, yet have proved to be incredible colleagues. We know that a diverse and inclusive workforce makes for a happier workplace and results in greater business outcomes.
Source from Within
Some of our best talent is often right under our noses, but not necessarily in positions that can utilize their full potential or provide the opportunity to grow. That’s why it’s critical to truly know your talent.
How do you do that? By regularly using technology to take inventory of your people and their skills across the organization, democratizing learning experiences so that everyone has access to them, and building a culture of mobility and opportunity. This requires being radically transparent in communicating opportunities for career growth.
Embrace the Velocity of Innovation
Our dear friend, innovation. There’s no stopping it and we don’t want to. Innovation is a great thing for all of us, but it creates challenges in workforce development. With constant innovation comes the constant change of needed skills.
The problem is, not enough companies are willing to put more skin in the game when it comes to reskilling. In the Workday and Bloomberg Next survey, half of the corporate respondents anticipate facing budget constraints when deploying a plan to address the impact of emerging technologies on the workforce. So let me ask this: If a company is willing to put time, money, and resources behind responding to innovations that impact its competitive landscape or business model, why wouldn’t it also invest in innovations that impact its workforce?
Only 30 percent of corporations and 39 percent of educators say they are collaborating to help reskill and retrain employees.
Partnerships with other organizations can help ease the burden. Jon Kaplan, vice president of training and development at Discover Financial Services, discussed how their company is using Guild Education to manage a number of aspects of its recently announced Discover College Commitment program, which provides a full tuition ride for all employees seeking to pursue a university degree online from one of three selected universities.
The program got a lot of interest from the forum audience because it’s truly unique. Consider that only 30 percent of corporations and 39 percent of educators say they are collaborating to help reskill and retrain employees, according to the survey. I’m sure we can be more innovative about how we work together to address the impact of innovation. Another idea: What about partnering with researchers at educational institutions to help define the roles of the future within various industries?
I’ll end this post with one final thought: We all need to be in the business of continuous learning. Dr. Seuss is a favorite in our household with his endless wisdom and clever turns of phrase. And, as the good doctor says, “It’s better to learn how to know than to know.
观点
2018年08月09日
观点
人力资源和工作流程——生产力系统 HR & the flow of work – Systems of Productivity文/J Jerry Moses
文章导读:
在TechHR18会议的第2天,德勤(Deloitte)的Bersin创始人乔什•伯辛(Josh Bersin)对新一代招聘、管理、学习、职业和员工体验工具是如何从根本上扰乱市场进行了分析。
他认为:技术与商业问题相一致,技术才有意义。
以下是Josh Bersin在TechHR 18会议上对人力资源技术趋势的一些见解:
技术、自动化、机器人技术都在发挥作用!
生产力是一个问题!
作社会型企业!
持续的性能管理具有巨大的影响——获取工具
大型人力资源技术供应商没有跟上步伐
人才管理需要工具来处理
我们给员工发工资方式将会被打乱
企业学习才是真正的事情!
员工福利市场具有真正的潜力
软件市场正在成长
员工体验进入工作流程
英文原文:
On Day 2 of TechHR18, Josh Bersin,Founder of Bersin by Deloitte, presents a research-based analysis of how a new generation of recruiting, management, learning, career, and employee experience tools are radically disrupting the marketplace
Micro trends are driving change – changes in the HR technology landscape, the way we work, and particularly, the changes in how organizations are being managed and are managing. The world of HR and HR tech is undergoing a significant shift. HR is now over Cloud, Social and Mobile – this is the time for a new breed of systems - intelligent platform strategies that are making HR and its processes real-time, productive, agile and data-driven.
But “Nothing in technology makes sense unless its aligned with the business problems we are trying to solve” as Josh Bersin says. Here are a few insights on HR tech trends from Josh Bersin’s session at TechHR’18.
Technology, Automation, Robotics are here and they work!
According to Bersin’s research, 45 percent of companies are still focused on basic process automation. The business ecosystem is almost a decade into the economic growth, and has a plethora of generations working together in it. We are living longer, the average career spans 70-75 years, and technology is disrupting where we work along with our daily lives. Most of HCM trends, technology, robotics, AI, automation, is actually becoming real. However, we don’t know what to deal with it all because most companies are still struggling with the challenges of the right skills, structures, organizational design, and rewards systems.
Productivity is an issue!
Productivity is lagging. The real key for HR going forward is becoming the Chief of Productivity. If employees use products and tools that the organizations provide to them, employes will feel better, happier, and engaged. And this is the secret of what is going to happen to HR technology – building systems for the HR that make people productive. With agility, team-centric organizations, burnout is becoming an issue while employee engagement and communication tools are overwhelming employees. This is the time for businesses to build HR software that really improves productivity and helps teams work better together?
Business as a social enterprise!
CEOs are now being asked to take social positions on topics and act on behalf of communities, stakeholders, shareholders, and employees and customers. The future of business is in becoming a socially conscious enterprise and here, the most important thing would to be to develop a technology strategy that provides purpose, meaning, transparency and fairness. Businesses can no longer afford to buy technology that implements practices that someone else coded.
Continuous Performance Management has a huge impact – get the tools
Continuous performance management is transformative. It really and truly works! Ratings will not go anywhere but the crucial part will be to build newer and continuous processes for goal setting, coaching, evaluation, and feedback. This is time for organizations to reconsider performance philosophy. Even with the success of the cloud HCM vendors in the market, a comprehensive solution for performance management is not available. “Team-centric” tools will be the future of HCM market in the future.
Big HR Tech vendors are not keeping up
Most of the ERP vendors are struggling to keep up with the evolution and changes in the business ecosystem. ERP vendors are not getting good marks for ease of use, integration, or value to the end users or employees. There is a stiff competition in the ERP market and it is becoming crowded.
Talent management is done!
The whole idea of Talent Management was about pre-hire to retire. But we don’t work like that anymore. Most of us work at many companies during our careers and organizations are also going through change, disruption and reorganization. Managing employees through the entire lifecycle is not really the problem but managing employees in a new management environment that is about teams, empowerment, mission, purpose, clarity and transparency of goals. It’s a totally different management environment and we need tools to deal with that.
How we pay people will be disrupted
The most disrupted area of HR to come is the way we pay people. Only 1 in 5 companies believes that their rewards system is actually aligned with their corporate strategy. We are still paying people the way we did in the past — salary bands, annul reviews, policies of secrecy and who is getting paid what – all this will be disrupted and we will have a whole new set of tools for employee experience.
Corporate Learning is the real deal!
Platforms like Degreed and Edcast are transforming corporate learning — experience platforms, micro-learning platforms, modernized LMS systems, AI-based systems to recommend learning, find learning, and deliver learning, and Virtual Reality-based learning are giving employees and organizations all the things they need.
Employee wellbeing market has the true potential
It’s all about the moments that matter. There is a need to improve productivity but there is a significant impetus on employee wellbeing, reducing the cognitive overload and augmenting human performance. This vendor market is moving fast. The new world of work will be about “engagement, productivity, and wellbeing” all in one.
ONA software market is now growing
With the explosion of HRMS data, wellbeing data, networking data, among many other forms of structured and unstructured data, HR is struggling to deal issues of ethics, privacy, and becoming more transparent about the analytics they are doing. The Organizational Network Analytics is growing and so is a new world of “relationship analytics”. People Analytics will guarantee success.
Getting into the Flow of Work
Employee experience is the buzzword and we are trying to reform it in a way that applies and improves the work experience of every individual in an organization. Organizations define employee experience as a project of looking at the moments that matter, transitions, periods of time in career where one is stressed and what can HR do to make that easier. But none of the tools are designed to measure or map something like this. All tools are designed for the HR function, not this. There is a new category of software being built to help HR with the employee experience - to shield employees from the complexities of the backend HR systems and deliver all the different things the HR does in the flow of work.
观点
2018年08月07日
观点
有关智能自动化将如何改变人力资源功能的见解Insights On How Intelligent Automation Will Change The HR Function文/ Darren Burton
文章导读:
麦肯锡全球研究所(McKinsey Global Institute)最近的一项研究发现,60%的职业至少有30%的构成工作可以实现自动化,而全球3%至14%的劳动力将需要转换职业类别。
智能自动化将以各种方式直接影响人力资源——从它在组织中需要扮演的角色,提供的服务,到与人力资源相关的工作实际完成的方式。
影响:
更深入地研究如何使员工的表现最佳化。
自动化可以消除重复性的任务,解放员工工作日的部分工作。这引发了一系列潜在的问题:
员工应该如何利用剩余的时间?
组织如何向员工提供处理不同任务所需的技能?
员工的表现是否应该有不同的评价?
当基础任务现在由智能系统处理时,员工如何“学习基础知识”?
根据IA技能计划未来。
搞清楚开发、培训和维护智能自动化系统所需的技能,然后借用这些技能的最佳方式,在市场上做出区别。智能自动化技术还将有助于建立一种价值主张,能够吸引合适的人才,以满足公司当前和未来的需求。
让领导做好管理转型的准备。
领导除了平衡市场和短期预期的交付,他们还需要为个人和职业转型的团队成员提供指导。设定现实的期望,让人们参与变革过程,帮助个人适应数字化和人力劳动的世界。
英语原文:
As a business executive and HR leader, it’s hard to keep track of all the predictions associated with the future of intelligent automation. For example, a recent study by the McKinsey Global Institute identified that 60 percent of occupations have at least 30 percent of constituent work activities that could be automated, and that three to fourteen percent of the global workforce will need to switch occupational categories. These studies make a series of assumptions regarding the types of jobs that will be automated, the pace at which automation will occur, and the various governmental policies that will help or hinder the adoption of these types of technologies.
In today’s market, intelligent automation skills are at a premium.ISTOCK
Regardless of exact magnitude of the change, it’s pretty clear that intelligent automation is going to directly impact HR in a variety of ways—from the role it needs to play within an organization, to the services it needs to provide, to the way HR-related work actually gets accomplished. Within KPMG, as we continue to work with clients in this space and look to transform our own internal HR capability, it is safe to say that HR will play a central role in helping the organization do a few key things:
Dig deeper into how to best enable employee performance.
As much of our early experience has demonstrated, automation can eliminate repetitive tasks and potentially free up a portion of a worker’s overall day. This, of course, raises a whole range of potential questions: What should employees do with the remainder of their time? How do we provide them with the skills needed to handle different tasks? Should their performance be assessed differently? How do they “learn the basics” when basic-level tasks are now handled by an intelligent system? These are precisely the types of questions that the HR professional of the future must be able to help business leaders answer so that they can design jobs and shift roles to make the most of employees’ skills and capabilities.
Plan for a future dependent on IA skills.
In today’s market, intelligent automation skills are at a premium. As one New York Times article joked, “Salaries are spiraling so fast that some joke the tech industry needs a National Football League-style salary cap on A.I. specialists.” Figuring out the skills that are needed to develop, train, and maintain intelligent automation systems and then determining the best way to either build, buy, or borrow those skills can make the difference between spending too much or too little in this marketplace. It will also help in building a value proposition that can attract the right talent to meet a company’s current and future needs.
Prepare leaders to manage the transformation.
The opportunities offered by intelligent automation are equaled by the potential magnitude of change executives will face as they come to terms with significant shifts in their industries and business models. In addition to balancing marketplace shifts with delivery on short-term expectations, they will need to provide guidance to team members who may be going through their own personal and professional transformations. The need to set realistic expectations, involve people in the change process, and help individuals adjust to a world of digital and human labor will test the capabilities of even seasoned change leaders.
Interested in learning more about people challenges associated with intelligent automation? KPMG partners Mark Spears, Robert Bolton, and David Brown have authored two important perspectives, “Rise of the Humans” and “Rise of the Humans 2,” that provide useful insights into the topic.