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The 2026 HR Forecast: Rising Above Talent, Benefits, and Compliance Turbulence

Understand the four major shifts that will shape HR in 2026. You'll gain expert insights and practical steps to hire, develop, support, and strengthen your team in an unprecedented year.

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What You'll Find In the Guide

In 2026, small and mid-sized business owners will be asked, once again, to do more with less. A unique labor market, evolving skill demands, rising benefits costs, and fast-changing compliance requirements will shift operational realities and introduce new challenges.

This guide will help you anticipate what’s coming and respond with confidence. It covers the four major shifts that will define 2026:

  • Reimagining Recruitment: What it means to hire in a market where talent is scarce, skills are changing, and AI has altered both how candidates present themselves and how employers evaluate them.
  • Resilience Through Retention: Why upskilling, reskilling, and career-pathing are now core retention and growth strategies, not perks.
  • Rising Costs, Rising Expectations: How to manage escalating healthcare costs, navigate new benefits-related rules and tax credits, and communicate changes in a way that maintains employee trust.
  • The Compliance Crossroads: What growing federal, state, and local requirements mean for SMBs, and how HR can help you stay ahead.
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