The chief human resources officer, in some organisations the chief people officer, owns people strategy: talent, culture, reward, policy and organisational health. Hybrid work parked a new file on the CHRO’s desk, because attendance policy is simultaneously a people question and a property question.
The CHRO’s workplace interest is evidence: real attendance patterns rather than surveys, leave and coordination running without friction, and policies that hold up because data supports them. It is why workforce features have grown into workplace platforms; the two agendas meet at “who is in on Thursday”.