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Date posted: 31st May 2022

31st May 2022

Guest Blog: Why are HR professionals vastly underrepresented on corporate boards?

Guest Blog: Why are HR professionals vastly underrepresented on corporate boards?

This is a guest post by Gillian French. Gillian is the Expert in Residence – Employee Experience at Workvivo.

With the spotlight firmly placed on how organizations are adapting to the new working environment, Workvivo’s Gillian French highlights the fact that we are hearing very little about how company boards need to evolve. With a Korn Ferry report showing ”fewer than 3% of sitting directors on the boards of Fortune 1000 companies were HR execs”, Workvivo’s Gillian French investigates why people with a background in HR rarely make an appearance on company boards. Read the full article here.