The housing market will improve when average wages increase, specifically above HR salary research reports.

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Our research shows a need to decentralize many HR decision processes as well.

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Every three years since 1995, my research center has done a survey of how the HR functions in major corporations are operating.

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For this research, we interviewed many technology leaders and their HR counterparts in companies that are widely recognized as great places to work that also happen to score well on customer experience.

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Mr. Bersin pointed out that per a survey in 2009 by his research firm, 84-85% of people in HR roles felt that they were sorely lacking in skills and expertise around social business systems.

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New research we will soon publish shows that the average age of a core HR system is nearly 7 years old.

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