Identify and discuss three key trends or issues associated with HR and its contributions to twenty-first-century global organizations that were presented in the readings. In addition, briefly share an experience you have had with HR that reflects its changing role in the workplace.

Trends associated with HR:

1. Digitization: Advancements in IT and predictive analytics are automating several HR tasks. This enables the HR staff to shorten traditional administration tasks and perform them more efficiently.
2. Diversification of benefits: Organizations have started to come up with flexible, individualized benefits such as reimbursement of college tuition. This makes the role of HR more complicated.
3. Proliferation of temp work: Career trajectories are no longer as linear as they were before with the rise of the gig economy. This complicates the role of HR.

As a freelance worker, I recently had to navigate the complex web of negotiating the terms of my temp contract with HR, e.g., whether or not I would receive any benefits and whether my contract would be renewable.