Top HR Trends for 2025

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    HR trends to expect in 2025

    What are the top trends for HR in 2025? Gartner surveyed over 1,400 HR leaders across 60+ countries and all major industries to identify and assess the top HR trends, priorities and expected challenges for 2025. Leader and manager development tops the list, with organizational culture, strategic workforce planning, change management and HR technology following close behind. 

    Download Gartner's Top Trends report to dive deeper into the 2025 trends and benchmark your function against your peers. You’ll discover:

    • Details on the five HR initiatives that leaders are prioritizing in 2025
    • What’s driving these trends and why action is so imperative for HR leaders
    • Recommended next steps for each trend

    About the Gartner HR Trends & Priorities Report

    This annual report is derived from the Gartner HR Goal Survey, which polls chief human resources officers (CHROs) and HR leaders on common challenges and asks them to rank their top priorities for the year ahead. This report is designed to offer HR leadership teams a better understanding of emerging HR trends and insight into what their peers are focusing on in the year ahead to help drive strategy for the HR function.

    This year, Gartner received responses from more than 1,400 HR leaders across 60+ countries and all major industries. Fourty-nine percent of participants were CHROs or heads of HR.