When HR Acuity wrapped up its Fourth Annual Employee Relations Benchmark Study, three trends immediately jumped out at us. Those trends tell us a lot about the state of employee relations as a discipline within HR organizations today, but there are long term implications for human resources and company culture as a whole.
Employee relations leaders from more than 200 enterprise organizations, collectively representing 5.5 million employees globally, participated in the study. The data, based on organizations’ data from 2019, not only provide a snapshot of what was happening last year in employee relations, but also highlight trends and comparisons from previous studies and as well as providing a look at the post-pandemic future.