HR Trends in 2021 that will occupy the mindshare of leaders

This email has attempted to list the key talent and HR trends that will dominate conversations and actions in 2021.  An industry-specific report will be subsequently published, but this is a cross-industry view – a general view across all sub-functions of HR.  The email is long one but I assure you it is packed with detailed insights and research.

In his essays of probabilities, the great scientist Pierre Laplace said the following:

“We may regard the present state of the universe as the effect of its past and the cause of its future. For an intellect that is vast enough to submit these data to analysis, the future would be present before its eyes” – Pierre-Simon de Laplace (1749–1827)

Predicting the future is not very easy, but as Laplace says, we can have a point of view through the vastness of data mining and analyzing trends.  Our point of view may not be super accurate but will get your creative thinking flowing, which is the objective of this email. By leveraging over 300 million data points from 2020, we have attempted to provide an overview of activities that will take the mindshare of HR and the skills that we expect to dominate in 2021.