Gartner HR Symposium - taking a leaf out of cybersecurity's book when tackling workforce risk

At a time when there are more emerging workforce-impacting risks than ever before, the secret to success for HR leaders is to focus less on individual challenges and more on broad-based "threat vectors" to reduce organizational exposure.

This was the advice of Dion Love, Vice President of Research and Advisory Services at Gartner, at the firm's recent HR Symposium and Xpo in London. He said that risks, which included political, technological, and economic, are now appearing at the top of CHROs agendas when in the past they would have been considered "someone else's problem".

But because of their sheer number and the fact they are all pressing, HR leaders are finding it increasingly difficult to prioritize them. As a result, Love suggested applying a tried and trusted cybersecurity approach. This involves evaluating the "recurring conditions of vulnerability through which risks create exposure". He explained:

That's the lesson...

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