Three Steps to Protect Your Learning Budget: How to Measure Learning Spend and Make the Case Against Cuts

For many organizations, 2024 has been a year of cost containment in which all expenses are being scrutinized for potential cuts. As a non-revenue generating function, human resources and the HR budget are commonly on the receiving end of this scrutiny. 

Cost efficiency is an important goal, but now is not the time to cut back on spending related to employees—especially for learning. 

After breaking down cross-industry data on what organizations spend for employee learning, this article provides resources to help you benchmark your organization’s learning spend along with strategies to help you build a business case for sustaining or increasing your learning budget. 

This article was first published in partnership with Human Resource Executive. 

Click here to view the article on hrexecutive.com.