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HR CHIEF MAGAZINE TEAM

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF LUCY BUCHHOLZ

DEPUTY EDITOR GEORGIA GREETHAM

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CEO GLEN WHITE

Trust. The invisible currency tying together the internal and external challenges facing today’ s HR leaders.

Inside the organisation, the arrival of the EU Pay Transparency Directive marks the end of compensation secrecy. As the“ glass office” becomes reality, HR Chief Magazine explores what leaders must do to bridge the gap between a policy on paper and a culture of fairness in the office.

Looking outward, a parallel trust crisis is brewing around technology. As AI integration accelerates, a cultural debt is building. Fast. A whopping 80 % of employees worry their peers are using AI to fake productivity, according to Deloitte, and executives face a wave of synthetic job applications.

Whether HR leaders are managing pay structures or algorithms in the workflow, their most mission-critical task is to bridge these gaps, and, ultimately, to build a business that places trust at the core.

LUCY BUCHHOLZ

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