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What have been the most significant developments in HR over the last 50 years?

Steve Bridger

What events - e.g. major pieces of legislation - or gradual cultural shifts - do you feel have been the most significant developments in HR & L&D over the last 50 years?

I'm thinking the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, and 2010s.

I'd love to get your thoughts?

Note: this is a slightly different question to the one I posed 7 years ago, but might delight if you've not read it before: I remember typing pools... 

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  • I don't think the rise of the desktop computer or the influence of the Internet can be overlooked. Together, they've transformed recruitment and created new job categories and even whole industries from nothing.

    In the 1990s we saw the rise of email as the new tool of management.

    In the 2000s we saw the creation of the website and the first online recruiment sites, along with the increasing ubiquity of digital tools for managing people and payroll.

    In the 2010s social media became the new technological battlefield, creating as many problems as it did solutions.

    In the 2020s, I expect automation and the intrusion of AI into routine workplace tasks to be the new technological disruptor for HR (as well as everything else).
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  • I don't think the rise of the desktop computer or the influence of the Internet can be overlooked. Together, they've transformed recruitment and created new job categories and even whole industries from nothing.

    In the 1990s we saw the rise of email as the new tool of management.

    In the 2000s we saw the creation of the website and the first online recruiment sites, along with the increasing ubiquity of digital tools for managing people and payroll.

    In the 2010s social media became the new technological battlefield, creating as many problems as it did solutions.

    In the 2020s, I expect automation and the intrusion of AI into routine workplace tasks to be the new technological disruptor for HR (as well as everything else).
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