HR Trends: Spending, Structure, and Staffing

Published On:

August 27, 2025

Authored By:

APQC

Public Content:

In the first webinar of a three-part series, APQC’s Principal Research Lead in Human Capital Management, Elissa Tucker, showcases the results of APQC’s Current State of the HR Function survey and explores how HR functions are structured, where they are spending the HR budget, and how they are allocating and developing HR staff.

You will learn about:

HR budget needs, trends, and predictions;
HR staff size, roles, and future needs;
HR skills gaps and trends and plans for HR function structure.

This is the recording of the webinar. Click here to view the presentation slides.

Type:

Webinars & Videos

Topics:

Human Capital Management, HCM/HR Operations, HR Function

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