Research Abstract: Building a Resilient Future of Work – The Crucial Role of Technology in Promoting Employee Career Resilience

Posted on April 10, 2023April 7, 2023 by Jennifer Dole and Larry McAlister

We at 3Sixty Insights are committed to understanding how technology is shaping the future of work and how it is promoting employee career resilience. We believe that HR technology vendors like yourselves play a crucial role in this process. We are inviting you to brief us on how your technology solutions are helping to build the future of work by promoting employee career resilience. We are interested in learning about the benefits of your technology in helping employees adapt to change and how it provides access to on-demand coaching and development resources. We also want to hear about how your technology fosters a sense of community and support through technology. We believe that balancing digital solutions with face-to-face interactions is critical to ensuring that employees’ […]

Research Preview: Payroll, HCM, and Complexity: What Are the Big Concerns in Managing Remote, Global, or Otherwise Complex Workforces?

Posted on May 26, 2022June 28, 2022 by Brent Skinner

For 2022, 3Sixty Insights is exploring four main themes in human capital management (3Sixty Insights 3SIAG2214 – The 3Sixty Insights Human Capital Management Themes for 2022, January 2022). The following preview looks at the second of these, the title of this report. Background Throw the aftermath of a global pandemic on top of the already tall heap of concerns, and the complexities impacting payroll and human capital management for large enterprises have only grown over the past several years. Even just the payroll piece of the equation has always been fraught with challenges. Work from anywhere has become work from home, for example, further exacerbating the intricacies the typical global or exceptionally complex enterprise faces in paying employees, in a long-tail footprint of far-flung locations […]

Research Preview: Where and How Is HCM Best at Improving the Employee Experience?

Posted on March 23, 2022June 30, 2022 by Brent Skinner

For 2022, 3Sixty Insights is exploring four main themes in human capital management (3Sixty Insights 3SIAG2214 – The 3Sixty Insights Human Capital Management Themes for 2022, January 2022). The following preview delves into the first of these, the title of this report. Background The idea that HCM is equal parts concrete and abstract resonates with stakeholders across the profession of HR and among creators and advocates of HCM technology for conventional applications and at the very edge and frontiers of the management of the employment of people (3Sixty Insights BWSRN2142 – Concrete vs. Abstract HCM: The Power of “And,” April 2021). In referring to these concepts of concrete and abstract HCM, some say hard and soft HCM. Others say tactical and strategic HCM. Whatever the […]

Research Preview: COVID-19, WFH, and the Long View: Can HCM Protect the Employee Experience?

Posted on May 19, 2021October 31, 2021 by Brent Skinner

What happens when human capital management catches COVID-19? Late last year, we asked the question in our 2021 Research Agenda (3Sixty Insights BWSAG20101 Research Agenda 2021: Human Capital Management, October 2020). And, all last year and this, we saw the acute symptoms. Employers that didn’t have to shut down entirely transitioned by necessity to companywide work-from-home or hybrid arrangements. Organizations quickly learned they hadn’t properly anticipated or planned for the now well-documented, related challenges—of which there are many. Now, however, the aid of hindsight shows us that COVID-19 just may have provided a lasting boon to the employee experience—specifically to the idea that the employee experience matters and cannot be ignored. This may seem odd to contemplate. Never mind that it took a pandemic and […]

Research Preview: Concrete vs. Abstract HCM: A New Way for Organizations to Look at HCM

Posted on November 30, 2020September 30, 2021 by Brent Skinner

Research Overview 3Sixty Insights recently published a research note on the areas of inquiry the HCM practice plans to pursue in the coming months. The first and current research initiative for the HCM practice at 3Sixty Insights is an investigation of the concrete and abstract elements and aspects of HCM. Through interviews with end-users of HCM technology and vendors of it, 3Sixty Insights’ goal is to explore the many potential permutations of concrete and abstract HCM. Of interest is how much concrete and how much abstract HCM factors into the rationale that organizations use to develop successful business cases for HCM deployment. Several questions are guiding this analysis: Where is the delineation between Concrete vs. Abstract aspects of HCM? In evaluating solutions for HCM technology, […]