Dive Brief:

• According to a recent Human Resources Executive piece, HR will face some interesting challenges over the next five years.
• For one thing, innovative partnerships will increasingly be the norm in the year 2020 and beyond -- and will require a significant rethinking of how HR goes about finding the best people, according to one HR expert.
• Another expert says "the near future holds great promise for HR because of the sheer importance of its mission and the growing stature of HR leaders."

Dive Insight:

HRE also reports that the HR department of 2020 "will probably devote a good chunk of its attention to people who work outside the organization, many of whom will have no intention of ever working for it in a conventional employment relationship."

The piece explores many of the critical challenges HR may face in the short-term future, but most of all it lets HR leaders know that in order to not just survive, but thrive, they will need to be very tuned into a host of issues, from workforce fragmentation to global volatility, and from performance metrics to data analytics.