When it comes to how HR must adapt to meet today’s challenges, it seems everyone out there has an opinion. There are those who want to reset it; others would prefer to reboot it. Some want to eliminate it completely. Along those lines, of course, there is the infamous Harvard Business Review cover (July-August 2015) that literally said to “blow up” HR and start over (the articles inside, as it turned out, were hardly that Draconian).
Mercer, one of big brands among HR consulting firms, has a few new ideas along those lines. You might say Mercer is taking a genteel approach, looking at ways to “redefine” HR’s value.
