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Labor Force Snapshot: Veterans in the U.S. Labor Force

As employers seek solutions to persistent talent shortages, it is essential to understand the evolving veteran workforce and to implement strategic recruitment practices that enable organizations to fully leverage their strengths. Veterans contribute meaningfully to the labor market, possessing a broad range of skills and credentials.

Help Wanted: Understanding the Labor Shortage

This data brief introduces new labor shortage measures that incorporate the idea that occupations in demand at any given point in time may not align with the occupational experience of unemployed job seekers. By incorporating this “occupational mismatch” barrier, these new metrics demonstrate that the extent and nature of the current labor shortage is far more complex than generally assumed.

The Complex Realities for Women in the Workplace

To remain competitive and drive innovation, organizations must harness the full potential of their workforce. Women, who represented nearly half of the employed population in February 2025, play a critical and transformative role in today’s labor market. This research report highlights seven key realities shaping women’s experiences at work, and offers actionable guidance.

Women in Leadership: Reducing Barriers and Expanding Opportunities for Career Progression

Discover actionable steps organizations and HR leaders can take to address the labor shortage, develop their internal leadership pipelines and reduce barriers to career progression that women leaders face.

SHRM Benchmarking

With SHRM Benchmarking, you now have access to key HR and business metrics you can use at your own organization to craft stronger recommendations and make better decisions. Download the overall CHRO Metrics, Learning & Development, Recruiting, and Talent Management reports, or select a report that is cut by the organization size, sector, industry, or region that most closely aligns with your organization.

Automation, Generative AI, and Job Displacement Risk in U.S. Employment

How will advances in automation technology and generative AI reshape the world of work? SHRM fielded a large-scale survey of U.S. workers in the spring of 2025 aimed at understanding the extent to which tasks are completed using automation in general and generative AI in particular, as well as the presence of nontechnical barriers that could plausibly protect a job from being displaced by automation.

From Adoption to Empowerment: Shaping the AI-Driven Workforce of Tomorrow

As artificial intelligence accelerates its integration into the modern workplace, organizations are re-evaluating their strategies to remain competitive and resilient. AI is recasting how work is accomplished, presenting unparalleled opportunities for productivity, innovation, and growth.

2025 Recruiting Executives Benchmarking

This data brief highlights key results from SHRM’s 2025 benchmarking data collected from HR executives and leaders. Understanding these key metrics will help equip recruitment executives and other talent acquisition professionals to guide their own organizations and make the necessary adjustments to maximize recruitment efforts to attract top talent.

2025 CHRO Benchmarking: Insights to Power People Strategy

This brief highlights key results from SHRM’s 2025 benchmarking data. Drawing on key insights from HR executives and leaders, these results showcase metrics that are pertinent to CHROs and others who lead their organization’s HR function.

CHRO Priorities & Perspectives Report

SHRM’s new CHRO Priorities and Perspectives report examines the key strategic goals of CHROs in 2025, the range of challenges they face, and their visions for the future of work. The report was based on insights collected in December 2024 from 212 CHROs spanning diverse organizational sizes and industries.

Redefining Talent with the 65-and-over Workforce

Since 1948, the number of Americans ages 65 and older has increased by 457%, exponentially more than any other age group, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). Workers 65 and older are now the fastest-growing segment of the U.S. workforce, making it essential for HR professionals to understand the dynamics of this growing talent pool.

L&D Executives Priorities and Perspectives

This research explores L&D executives’ top priorities for workforce and leadership development in the year ahead, the challenges they face, and their expectations for the evolving L&D and workplace landscape. This research sheds light on how these leaders are addressing skills gaps and building forward-thinking strategies to prepare their organizations for the future.

Employment in an Automated Era

Are AI and automation destined to replace human labor? The latest SHRM research shows a more nuanced picture: Most workers aren’t in imminent danger of being displaced. But HR leaders can’t become complacent. They must continue to implement artificial intelligence strategies, address workforce anxiety, and help employees develop new skills for tomorrow’s jobs.

Picking Up the Pieces: Providing Effective Leadership in a Crisis

Whether your organization faces a PR scandal, a controversial executive departure, a natural disaster or anything else that tests your values as an organization, how do you provide continuity as an HR executive? This guide will help you assess the crisis, deploy resources effectively and support your employees through a difficult period.

How to Define and Communicate Your Employer Brand to Attract Top Talent

The more attractive—and authentic—your employer brand is, the more you can attract qualified, interested applicants to your open roles and even convert candidates into company champions.

Emerging HR Technology Skills

AI-driven transformation is accelerating across the HR landscape, making technology skills a must-have for today’s HR leaders. As organizations race to adapt to the rapid advances in artificial intelligence and data analytics, mastering emerging tech skills is crucial for staying competitive.

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