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THE THREE
FORCES SHAPING
HR RIGHT NOW
Ultimate Software's
Cecile Alper-Leroux shares
her insights into the future
of work and what HR leaders
need to do to stay ahead
of the curve
are shaping it and translates them for HR leaders
and organizations. In a webcast during January's
"prediction season," Alper-Leroux explained how
accessibility, the balance between data privacy and
transparency and adaptability are shaping the future
of work today.
"They're incredibly interconnected," Alper-Leroux
told HRD in an interview ahead of the webcast.
"From an HR perspective, they reinforce each other."
She explained that the three factors are tied to the
ongoing global labour shortage, the rise of
automation and artificial intelligence (AI) and a
global reassessment of who, or what, people are
choosing to trust.
Focus on Accessibility for All
There's a global labour shortage, and Alper-Leroux
thinks accessibility is the answer. Her idea of
accessibility, though, goes beyond the concept of
physical access toward a holistic accessibility.
"Accessibility has to be more broadly defined,"
Alper-Leroux said. "We've got to focus on how we
make our workplaces available to some of the
untapped labour sources out there."
UN studies estimate one billion people live with
HR CAN'T EXIST in a vacuum. The forces that
shape people managers are the forces shaping
almost every industry today. That's Ultimate
Software's view. As a leading global provider of
human capital management (HCM) and employee
experience solutions in the cloud, Ultimate keeps
abreast of the forces shaping the working world to
stay ahead of customers' needs. Analyzing those
forces is part of Cecile Alper-Leroux's role.
As VP of HCM innovation at Ultimate, Alper-
Leroux looks at the world, sees what major forces
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