Employee wellness, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and flexible workplace, among others, are major factors in the outlook of human resources (HR) in 2022.
At a recent roundtable of HR thought leaders organised by the Chartered Institute of Personnel Management of Nigeria (CIPM), practitioners maintained that there is need for HR managers to re-learn and adapt to the new world of work this year.
President and Chairman of the Governing Council, CIPM, Olusegun Mojeed, who spoke on ‘2022 HR Outlook’, urged industry leaders to drive employee wellbeing, while working within the purview of labour laws.
This, he said, signals that it is a good time for HR and a key learning area for business leaders to make a meaningful impact.
According to him, “employee experience is very key because what we have is an unhappy workforce, which is leading to the migration of our citizens to other countries. These countries have made efforts to invest in social welfare and wellbeing.”
On other initiatives such as flexible workplace, digitisation and Artificial Intelligence to drive business outcomes, he said: “The world we live in is constantly evolving as we have witnessed various paradigm shifts from the 4th industrial revolution, the pandemic, which disrupted our lives, then the great resignation, which is seeing a massive migration of Nigerians moving to developed countries. In the midst of this, the HR manager increasingly has the responsibility of charting the course of productivity in any organisation.”
