Welcome to your HRD Connect daily update!

Will chatbots be your next recruit?

More and more businesses are saying “Hello” to chatbots to increase efficiency and cut costs while offering their customers a more personalised experience. Hannah Jeacock, Research Director at MHR explores the potential for chatbots in the workplace.

The three C’s of the talking taboo

Every year millions of pounds are donated to charities like ‘Mind’ and ‘Heads Together’ in an attempt to reduce the stigma that surrounds mental health. In many areas, they have succeeded in this mission, with mental health problems being far more commonly and accurately discussed and showcased across both social and mainstream media. What stigmas still exist, and what is being done about it in the workplace?

HRD Connect’s Editorial Advisory Board

We are delighted to launch our HRD Connect Editorial Advisory Board. It’s important to keep our HR community as informed as possible and with the help of our dedicated Editorial Advisory Board we can do so, our board will be providing their expert opinion across all areas of HR and leadership. With their industry-leading insights and advice, HRD Connect will continue to grow in resource, intelligence, and trustworthy information sources, continuing to enlighten and report across the world of global HR. Click below to meet our board.

Are you coming to next year’s gathering of the Who’s Who in the HR industry?

In today’s diverse and complex business environment we understand the challenges facing the business leaders of today. If you’re wondering how to create a profitable organisation whilst ensuring the wellbeing of your employees then we can help put you in front of the visionaries that have done exactly that.

We only assemble the best of the best – speakers confirmed for 2019 come from a variety of companies leading the way to include Virgin Money, HSBC, Sodexo, Sky, Thinkers 50, Bersin, Cisco, ThermoFischer Scientific and many more.

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I hope you enjoy the features.

Best wishes,

Emily Sexton-Brown,
Editor, HRD Connect