... © 2025 Emerald Publishing Limited 2025 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Future of work Talent development Strategic HR Learning culture Reskilling Digital skills Workforce agility Around the world, organisations are facing a growing skill shortage...

... other generations leading to practical strategic HR recommendations. However, the older generation has been leaving the workforce in record numbers, with economic inactivity rising sharply since the COVID-19 pandemic. Between 2019 and 2022, for example, economic inactivity due to long-term sickness...

.... Indeed, the findings here indicate there are often negative assumptions made about Gen Z. Importantly, these are not aligned with how Gen Z perceive themselves. The authors offer some reflections and recommendations for strategic HR approaches. Simon M. Smith can be contacted at: simonsmith...

...Emmanuel Senior Tenakwah; Benjamin Otchere-Ankrah Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the critical role of strategic HR in helping organisations optimise hybrid and remote work to seise the opportunities of the distributed workforce that has evolved in response to the COVID-19 pandemic...

... Human resource management Inclusion Diversity Equality Strategic HR That pay gap between men and women within fund management is actually the second largest of any sector in the UK (PWC, 2019), with only investment banking registering worse figures. At first, I was a bit sceptical...

... for equality is not lost within the COVID-19 crisis. COVID-19 Equality Ambidextrous leadership Diversity Inclusion Strategic HR With a radicalisation of work practices due to the impacts of COVID-19 comes a chance to radicalise our efforts to avoid conscious or unconscious discriminatory...