Dive Brief:
- HR is taking a page from the tech world and engaging in sharing success secrets using an "open source" approach, according to Forbes.
- Author Rawn Shah, an independent analyst on work culture and the future of work, wrote that Ambrosia Vertesi, global vice president and HR Leader at social media marketing management company, Hootsuite, is part of a movement that calls for HR to share more of its success secrets.
- Shah writes that events such as HR Tech World Congress, held in October in Paris, had employers openly sharing some of their practices. Yet, "verified and validated" practices remain in demand, especially for small and medium organizations who don't have the resources of large employers yet meet the same HR challenges.
Dive Insight:
Hootsuite's Vertesi told Shah that a project called #HROS launched in May 2015 as some HR leaders shared the view that mimicking the "open source" software concept in tech could be a help to HR. Shah wrote that Vertesi and Lars Schmidt, of Amplify Talent, a talent acquisition strategy consultancy, created #HROS as the seed for a "knowledge bank of HR practices across a wide range of industries and company sizes."
Currently, there are 609 participants on #HROS' moderated Facebook page.
“If we keep the same approach as open source—sharing the things that brings our collective skillset up, in a centralized open source way, that doesn’t cost any money, and for different industries, and sizes—that would increase the sector intellectual capital [and] be a better HR & people experience," Vertesi told Shah.
