Focusing on employee experience is key to solving today’s HR challenges

Focusing on employee experience is key to solving today’s HR challenges

- Current trends in HR field include increasing competition for talent, embracing intelligent technologies, and ‘quiet hiring’, which could help counteract ‘quiet quitting’

- SAP HR Connect, held in Dubai, highlighted technology’s role in solving human relations issues, and included SAP customer presentations and innovation awards

DUBAI, UAE — The concept of employee experience has become so foundational to HR strategy that it is no longer a standalone trend, but an integral part of all employment meta-trends in 2023, experts from SAP and its customers across the region agreed this week at SAP HR Connect event held at Dubai’s Museum of the Future.

The SAP SuccessFactors Growth & Insights Team’s research, presented throughout the event, identified seven major trends shaping the HR industry for 2023. Natali Stajner, SuccessFactors Director Middle East South at SAP, pointed out three new trends emerging for this year are the increased competition among businesses for skilled talent; a focus on embedding holistic wellbeing – including financial wellbeing – into HR practices; and a renewed focus on managerial readiness among employees.

The four recurring trends identified by the research are the adoption of emerging technologies - with AI and the Metaverse receiving particular attention in 2023; a recognition that flexible