If the last two years have made anything clear, it’s that without a functioning HR department, employees’ needs tend to fall through the cracks.
The role of CHRO is now a top-tier executive role, yet still, one in four Fortune 100 companies have no people leader in the C-suite, according to a recent report from software company BambooHR, and only 35% of startups have any kind of HR support at all. Apple, a major employer with nearly 164,000 employees, just announced the hiring of their first-ever chief people officer.
