We live once: what trends in HR dominated in 2022

Why VUCA- and BANI-worlds are no longer relevant today, as HRs describe the current state of affairs,what competencies are in demand by employers today and what are the expectations of job seekers from work - says Artyom Popov (VK)

Perhaps there is no more eloquent evidence of the complexity of the outgoing year for employers than the new views of HR theorists and futurists on the nature of the labor market and the profession in general. Although many global trends in 2022 began to take shape during the period of covid-19, at the macrofuturological level, it was this year that the current world was first characterized as SHIVA-world — in tune with the famous many-armed Hindu god of destruction and rebirth of the Universe.

The author of this definition, Mark Rozin of ECOPSY Consulting, breaks the world into five components, even by the sound of talking about the significance of the changes:

split - split, horrible - terrible, inconceivable - unimaginable, vicious - merciless, emerging - reborn.

The previous well-established vision of the BANI world (brittle - fragile, anxious - anxious, nonlinear - non-linear, incomprehensible - incomprehensible) and the VUCA world (volatile - changeable, uncertain - indefinite, complex - complex, ambiguous - ambiguous) became inconspicuous and faded against the background new more categorical formulations.

1. Request for new competencies