The Top HR Trends and Priorities For 2023

Five emerging HR priorities and action steps to focus on for the year ahead.

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HR trends to expect in 2023

What are the top priorities for HR in 2023? Gartner surveyed more than 850 human resources leaders across 60 countries and all major industries to identify HR trends and assess HR priorities and expected challenges for 2023. Leader and manager effectiveness tops the list, but other priorities are change management, employee experience, recruiting and the future of work.

Download the full report to dive deeper into the 2023 priorities and benchmark your function against your peers. You will discover:

  • details on the five HR initiatives that leaders are prioritising in 2023;
  • what’s driving these priorities and why action is so imperative for HR leaders; and
  • recommended next steps for each priority.

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What is the Gartner HR trends and priorities report?

This annual report is derived from the Gartner HR Priorities Survey, which polls chief human resources officers (CHROs) and HR leaders on common challenges and asks them to rank their top priorities for the year ahead. This report is designed to offer HR leadership teams a better understanding of emerging HR trends and insight into what their peers are focussing on in the year ahead to help drive strategy for the HR function.

This year, Gartner received responses from more than 800 HR leaders across 60 countries and all major industries. Forty-one per cent of participants were CHROs or heads of HR.