Future of Human Resources

The role of human resources in the future will increasingly be to manage a remote workforce as more and more employees work from home or in areas that are some distance from the office place environment (Stone, Deadrick, Lukaszewski & Johnson, 2015). Remote management of a workforce will be the new norm thanks to advancements in technology and computer usage (Navimipour, Rahmani, Navin & Hosseinzadeh, 2015). With the Internet and could-based frameworks that can be used to share knowledge, skills of human resources, monitoring, and updating, human resources personnel will have more opportunity to do all of the tasks they would normally do with staff working in-house. The Internet has ushered in the Digital Age, which has in and of itself changed the way people work and communicate all over the world (Colbert, Yee & George, 2016). As such, more people are more connected than ever before, and businesses are recognizing this...

(2016) show that digital technology is altering the way both employees and employers think about the workplace: digital and...…2016). The key to the future for human resources goes through the innovation that remote management affords.

The Digital Age will put an end to one-way communication systems but challenges will still remain for human resourcessuch as the problem of impersonal and passive interaction and the issue of artificial distance created by remote management (Stone et al., 2015). Nonetheless, the advantages of using digital technology to manage remote workers is still very enticing for businesses and the main task of human resources departments in the future will be to find ways to utilize this technology so as to make the company more effective all, make workers more effective,…