What are your biggest concerns for 2018?

It's difficult to disagree with any of the concerns raised because they are all relevant. However, I think there is a bigger concern that doesn't appear to be on anybody's agenda; a potential upsurge in industrial unrest.
A generation of business leaders and HR professionals, probably two generations, have been fortunate to work in an environment where the focus on people management has been hugely positive, forward thinking and in many ways visionary. They have never had to face the challenges of the late 70's, early/mid 80's.
For a number of reasons I think the employment landscape could change quite dramatically over the next twelve months. Pay and remuneration hasn't always kept pace with inflation, living standards are barely at pre 2008 levels; employees are now more empowered and therefore more confident to challenge; the gig economy, for all its positive benefits, has created a large group of unorganised and in some cases disenfranchised workers; trade union membership is at a comparably low level which means that there is scope to recruit new members and finally, should their be a change of government, Momentum, Jeremy Corbyn's campaign vehicle have shown themselves to be very good at organising. What if they change their focus from politics to the workplace?
"We've moved on" I hear you say; "we're never go back to the bad old days".
Perhaps you are right, but at the very least the possibility should be on the agenda of HR Professionals in 2018.

It's difficult to disagree with any of the concerns raised because they are all relevant. However, I think there is a bigger concern that doesn't appear to be on anybody's agenda; a potential upsurge in industrial unrest.
A generation of business leaders and HR professionals, probably two generations, have been fortunate to work in an environment where the focus on people management has been hugely positive, forward thinking and in many ways visionary. They have never had to face the challenges of the late 70's, early/mid 80's.
For a number of reasons I think the employment landscape could change quite dramatically over the next twelve months. Pay and remuneration hasn't always kept pace with inflation, living standards are barely at pre 2008 levels; employees are now more empowered and therefore more confident to challenge; the gig economy, for all its positive benefits, has created a large group of unorganised and in some cases disenfranchised workers; trade union membership is at a comparably low level which means that there is scope to recruit new members and finally, should their be a change of government, Momentum, Jeremy Corbyn's campaign vehicle have shown themselves to be very good at organising. What if they change their focus from politics to the workplace?
"We've moved on" I hear you say; "we're never go back to the bad old days".
Perhaps you are right, but at the very least the possibility should be on the agenda of HR Professionals in 2018.