Topics such as Diversity and Inclusion, employee experience, staff recruitment and retention and workforce planning are all common terms now. Budgets are seen as tight so the business case for staff expenditure is more difficult with C-suite and owners now needing solid data to support the focus of spend to ensure it aligns with key business topics, and to understand the level of return they may see from these.

Also, now the reporting of key analytics around things like gender pay gap etc… has meant boards are taking an ever-increasing view of these. The other key variable has been the search from a scarcity of employees looking for an ever-increasing experience within their working lives and requires a much more personal approach to the generic one-size fits all that most companies used to employ.

Finally, given the advance of technology tools and AI has meant that Talent analytics is seen as crucial for scaling and growing organisations.