What's going on with HR in horticulture?

Added on 17 May 2022

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What's going on with HR in horticulture?

What's going on with HR?" you ask. Well, frankly, a lot. Human resources is a diverse collection of disciplines. We all love a succinct answer. In short, human resources includes anything that impacts the people working in and around the business and may even impact the vendors, clients, customers, and consultants to the company. But even that does not quite capture all that human resources is and does. So, to ask, "What's going on with HR?" you can quickly see how expansive of a question that is.

Rather than share all that is going on with HR, let us look at some current events occupying a lot of time, effort, and energy within human resources. While the industry, unique operations, organizational headcount, and revenue volume all impact the priorities of the HR function within each business, some commonalities have a high probability of being experienced by the largest number of HR functions across all industries, operations, headcounts, and revenue volumes.

Talent Acquisition

This is the most pressing issue facing businesses today. The sourcing, screening, interviewing, hiring, and onboarding of top talent to either grow the business, stabilize the business, or backfill positions vacated through voluntary or involuntary terminations is taking up an unbalanced and overwhelming amount of HR's work today. The pandemic is a primary driver of the issue and not just because of the dangers to the health and even lives of the employee population. Many employees are resigning their positions not to go on unemployment or even to move to a competitor, but instead because of their perception of how they were treated in the early stages of the pandemic when layoffs and closures happened; and because of their perception of how they are being treated today with the controversies around masking, testing, and vaccinations. They have discovered during the layoffs in the early stages just what is important to them or the need and benefits of a better work/life balance; and so are leaving to go into different industries, open their own businesses, or into jobs they perceive will provide better opportunity to support themselves and their loved ones. Because of this, finding top talent and convincing them to join your organization is more challenging than ever before.