To celebrate its 70^th anniversary, ANDRH – a French association of HR professionals with over 5,000 members – unveiled the main findings of its study on the future of HR professions: “RH 7.0: les scénarii prospectifs des métiers ressources humaines”. This report lays out 21 potential future scenarios, underpinned by seven trends and four HR setups. It also describes seven skills and attitudes that tomorrow's HR professionals will need. The key themes are: monitoring, steering, transforming, assisting/advising, listening, respecting and measuring.

France Stratégie has published a comparative study on public-sector employment in 19 countries, based on an analysis of recent data from the OECD and Eurostat. “France is one of the countries with the highest level of spending, but the gap with other countries is narrowing.” According to the report's authors, this “dashboard” on public-sector employment aims to provide guidance on which actions can be taken to reduce public spending as a percent of GDP.

The use of HR data is becoming the main challenge for HR departments in the private sector. This is the conclusion of LinkedIn's Talent Intelligence Summit held in London in November 2017. According to LinkedIn, the world's leading professional social network, developing smart indicators and processing data will become the keys for successful recruiting and staff management in the future.