As global unrest and political divisiveness persists, DE&I leaders’ roles are changing. That’s according to Supriya Jha, chief diversity and inclusion officer at SAP.

Jha predicts 2024 will bring even more DE&I changes: from religion becoming a larger component of DE&I, to AI’s impact on diversity initiatives.

Time of change. “The role of DE&I professionals is morphing not just into organizational psychology positions, but also more as conduits of communication, almost ambassadors, to an extent, within the organization,” she said.

Jha also said that diversity leaders will have to focus more on empathy as external events affect employees in the workplace.

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HR strategy and worker behavior are shifting in light of new pay transparency laws, recent surveys suggest.

As of August, half the US job postings on Indeed’s website included wage or salary information, a result of legislation that has taken effect across 10 states and several jurisdictions.

The new laws have had a domino effect in a way policymakers “hadn’t entirely foreseen,” given that they’re being enacted at a time when “we’re also seeing a significant uptick in workers going remote,” Helena Almeida, vice president-counsel with HR company ADP, told HR Brew in July. To compete for nationally distributed talent in places like New York, California, or Colorado, employers must comply with pay transparency laws those states have enacted, she said.

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Generative AI was this year’s Kool-Aid man, busting through the news cycle with countless stories about how the new tech will transform every aspect of life, including the workplace.

To quench your thirst for more knowledge on AI in 2024, HR Brew caught up with four HR and learning and development pros, some via email, to ask for their thoughts on what changes we might expect to see in the L&D landscape when it comes to more prolific use of AI, and especially generative AI.

Deborah Johnson, chief learning officer at Deloitte Tech Academy

In 2024, L&D teams will have lots of opportunities to experiment with generative AI and take advantage of its rapid advances to improve their agility. We’ll see leading L&D organizations use gen AI to do rapid course prototyping, create assessment questions, and generate video and image assets that can make course content more engaging at a lower cost. We will also see increased demands on L&D teams to provide training on the uses of gen AI for the learners they support. As more organizations adopt and incorporate gen AI into their operations, the need to upskill their workforces will accelerate dramatically.

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