HR Professionals: The Seven Most Important Areas in 2026
It stands to reason that you have already prioritised your HR activities for the coming year. Obviously, no one can predict what may happen in the year ahead. This is especially the case given the unprecedented pace at which inventions and innovations are improving the HR tech landscape. The ‘alphabet soup’ is getting new ingredients with every product release from tech companies—case in point: AI, ML, DL, LLMs, GenAI, RPA, Agentic AI, MCP, and so on. This will obviously impact the recipe of our HR strategy for this year. During the previous year, we have seen companies experimenting with AI pilot projects in several areas with varying degrees of success. Giving us immense insights into where we should and should not implement these new products. During 2025, we have also seen announcements from Google about adding AI agents to Google Workspace, and from Microsoft about adding agents to (Agent 365) Microsoft 365. According to various HR tech analysts, we are mov...