EY

CONSULTING

EY's leadership is positioning the CHRO as a strategic business driver who must master digital transformation, technology adoption, and workforce redesign. They are advising HR executives to move beyond traditional people management into technology-enabled, data-driven strategic roles. EY's consulting practice is built around aligning people strategy directly to business outcomes through technology and transformation — the exact domains where HR.com's practitioner community, content, and engagement data provide unique value.

EY identifies three converging pressures in the market: workforce transformation has become urgent due to years of disruption, a projected 85M global talent shortage by 2030 demands fundamentally new talent strategies, and 38% employee attrition risk means retention is a crisis, not a project. Your platform uniquely addresses all three dimensions—your community data reveals real-time practitioner priorities, your content ecosystem helps HR leaders upskill on transformation, and your engagement signals show which solutions organizations are actively evaluating to address these exact challenges.

EY is actively acquiring in HR technology and workforce transformation. The Jubilant acquisition (HR technology consultancy) and Clerestory acquisition (change management) demonstrate a clear pattern: EY is building inorganic capabilities to strengthen its People Consulting practice. They are specifically targeting firms with intellectual property, accelerators, and domain expertise in HR systems and workforce transformation. This reflects a corporate development team actively evaluating HR-adjacent assets—HR.com's practitioner community, behavioral data, and content platform represent a differentiated asset that combines trust, insights, and market intelligence that traditional consulting acquisitions cannot replicate.

{"quote": "HR systems implementation and optimization is increasingly on the agenda of our clients, and the combined power of Jubilant's skills and accelerators, along with our multifaceted global organization, can deliver results at scale.", "speaker": "Whitt Butler, EY Americas Vice Chair of Consulting", "significance": "A senior EY leader explicitly states that HR technology is increasingly on their clients' agenda—the exact audience HR.com engages daily. Your platform provides visibility into 2M+ HR practitioners and their priorities, positioning you as the trusted intelligence source on what's actually happening in the market."}

{"quote": "The CHRO must align people strategy with business goals, leveraging strategic thinking, digital expertise and business acumen for a future-ready workforce.", "speaker": "Low Choy Huat, EY Malaysia People Consulting Leader", "significance": "EY is advising CHROs to develop digital expertise and strategic thinking—but CHROs need a trusted community and content ecosystem to build those capabilities. HR.com is the platform where CHROs consume that content and connect with peers solving the same challenges. This creates direct alignment between EY's advice and the ecosystem your platform provides."}

{"quote": "By welcoming Jubilant, EY US gains even more credibility and capabilities within the HR technology and transformation business of our People Consulting practice.", "speaker": "Whitt Butler, EY Americas Vice Chair of Consulting", "significance": "EY is investing in credibility and capabilities in HR technology. Market credibility with HR practitioners comes from community trust and demonstrated engagement—the foundation HR.com has built over decades. This demonstrates EY's appetite for assets that deliver real practitioner access and insight."}

{"quote": "By 2030, the global talent shortage is projected to exceed 85 million people, creating a pressing need for organizations to rethink their talent strategies and workforce management.", "speaker": "EY (market outlook)", "significance": "EY frames the talent crisis as urgent and massive—but real-time response data is more valuable than projections. Your platform provides behavioral data from 2M+ HR leaders showing exactly how they're responding to this challenge right now. That live signal is far more actionable for advisory practices than analyst forecasts."}