HR teams are bearing unprecedented responsibility during the pandemic: between leading return-to-work policies, to overseeing employees in various locations, to trying to attract and retain talent in a national labor shortage, employee-focused initiatives are last on the list.
“People teams should be spending time with people, not in spreadsheets,” says Baccaro. “There’s a lot of work on HR’s plate, and the more we can take off, the more thoughtful they can be about the things that truly matter.”
