HR Training 2021 - HR's use of technology for managing a post Covid workforce:

Overview
This topic explores the role of Human Resources in managing the organizations initiative for the return of the workforce to the office - in some fashion.
The use of pulse surveys, and the attention to the employee population’s mindset regarding their feelings of safety and anxiety about returning to work will be explored. The importance of underlying Workforce Analytics will be discussed in terms of Metrics and appropriate Dashboards of People Analytics. What they are? How they differ from Metrics? And how Workforce Analytics is critical in addressing the issues raised by the Pandemic - for any company.
The session will define the critical metrics needed by a company to comply with US legislation and to track and maintain data about their workforce in terms of safety, location, agility, job sharing etc. Additionally, it will review offerings from leading HRMS providers who provide the underlying data and offer algorithms to identify workforce status - both for current and for the near future as organizations emerge from lockdowns and ask employees to return to work.
The session will clarify the need for a strategic approach by HR and how HR must be the main source of communications and empathetic leadership in these new normal times. The understanding of certain Bias regarding managers and how they perceive those employees who physically return to the office vs. those that remain in either a hybrid or fully Work From Home schedule will also be explored.