When it comes to HR and workplace compliance trends, organizations can’t afford to just react. HR pros must proactively prepare to help their organizations succeed in 2025 and beyond.
But with so many concepts and a constant wave of employment legislation, building your ideal strategy isn’t always easy. Luckily, you don’t have to guess how these trends could feed into your priorities. Paycom commissioned a survey from PSB Insights in September 2024 of 1,000 U.S. HR pros to uncover their concerns, goals and challenges for 2025.
What are the top HR trends for 2025?
The HR landscape always evolves, but for 2025, the biggest trends include:
- people analytics and data-driven HR practices
- employee financial well-being
- AI in the workplace
- employee mental health
- remote and hybrid working
- employee caregiving challenges
- obstacles and opportunities with corporate DEI programs
Each of these concepts influences HR in some way, but as of right now, their exact impact isn’t entirely clear. For example, since the pandemic, businesses put a higher focus on the culture and experience they want to foster. Even so, the unique data HR pros collect about their workforce would alter how they approach this initiative from one organization to the next.
Employee financial well-being, on the other hand, is a bit more tangible. And no, enhancing it isn’t just about administering blanket raises. Rather, it takes helping employees better understand their wages so they can make better choices about their future overall.
What are the top workplace compliance trends for 2025?
While not every law will impact your organization today, the newest local and state laws relate to:
- consistency in employment policies
- cybersecurity
- time off and leave laws
- onboarding
Given how much legislation over these topics emerged in 2024, it wouldn’t be unrealistic if they gained even more momentum throughout 2025 and beyond.