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The looming talent shortage requires new workforce management strategies.

• Managing talent
  Rethink productivity approaches – move strategy into project and team models of efficiency. Hire better using assessments.
• Rising health care costs
  Providing cost-effective health care will help you be competitive as well as keep talent.
• Linking pay to performance
  Focus on the development of balanced and efficient teams, make sure everyone understands where the fit into the big picture, reward performance.
• Employee demands for flexible work schedules
  Working where and when they want to is possible with a project-based approach.
• Telecommuting
  More and more in demand for Gen X and younger. Optimize communication networks to make it possible.
• Growing demand for more time off
  Time allowed to “recharge the batteries” is a powerful incentive, and can be tied to productivity.
• Lower HR staff-to-employee ratios
  Fewer staff will have more to handle, so strategize now to streamline procedures, and use validated multi-use tools for the life cycle of the employee.
• Workplace privacy issues
  Transparency, ethics, and open discussion will be assets. Collaborate on policies to protect company interests while also limiting invasions of employee privacy.
• Employee demand for customized employment relationships
  Start development of new niche worker arrangements.

(top worries based on the SHRM “Workplace Forecast: A Strategic Outlook.”)

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