Today, we are so connected that 75% of Americans have admitted to using their smartphones in the bathroom. Mobile now accounts for 12% of media consumption time with the average American spending 158 minutes per day on their phone. To say we are hyper-connected is a bit of an understatement, and the trend of being accessible by their devices 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and 365 days a year has employees feeling pressured to be available to their coworkers and bosses all the time.
Pretty much everyone knows that traditional performance management is broken. Rating and ranking employees against one another hasn’t been considered “best practice” by HR or employees for some time. And for good reason.
Who could have anticipated that corporate learning would see a day where discussing mobile platforms, “pull” or on-demand learning models, and flipped classrooms would be the norm? In the recently released Global Human Capital Trends 2014 report, Deloitte dissected several trends poised to impact HR this year, including the upcoming revolution in corporate learning.
