​The 2023 SHRMLabs Better Workplaces Challenge Cup (BWCC) competitors will function a brand new monitor for SHRM members to current revolutionary HR options.

SHRMLabs is the office innovation hub and enterprise capital arm of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM). The competitors, coming into its third yr, goals to bridge the hole between corporations which are creating office applied sciences and the top customers of their merchandise: HR professionals and their workforces.  

The utility window for the BWCC member monitor will open Jan. 2 and shut Feb. 19, 2023.

The monitor acknowledges particular person SHRM members creating revolutionary HR options or course of modifications that align with the SHRMLabs’ mission of addressing urgent challenges within the office. The public will vote on the members competing within the monitor, and a panel of high HR trade chief judges will evaluation every presentation. Judges will assess the contestants based mostly on technique, affect, reputation and relevance in HR.

“With the addition of the member track, the BWCC will continue to become a bellwether and a brain trust for the smartest minds in HR to collaborate and resolve the most pressing issues facing the field today,” mentioned Alex Alonso, SHRM-SCP, SHRM’s chief data officer.

“It is important for SHRM members to be the thought leaders on workplace innovation,” mentioned Guillermo Corea, the managing director of SHRMLabs. “What better way to do it, than to show how they have been innovating in the workplace? Next year’s member track will allow members to showcase how they’ve innovated the workplace as well as further advanced HR as a strategic function.”

To qualify, members have to be early to midlevel of their careers, with three-plus years {of professional} work expertise, two-plus years of HR work expertise, and be comfy sharing the scale of their firm and a revolutionary thought.

Each member should even have a profile with the SHRMLabs WorkplaceTech Community, a platform for HR professionals to be taught, community and share greatest practices. Each applicant will compete for considered one of 10 finalist spots. The successful member will attend the SHRM Annual Conference & Expo 2023 in Las Vegas in June.

General BWCC Competitors

The common BWCC utility window is at the moment open till Jan. 15, 2023. Early-stage corporations within the HR tech, future of labor or human capital providers market ought to have the ability to convey a enterprise mannequin and display traction, engagement and adoption metrics upon utility. Each applicant could have the chance to safe considered one of 50 spots and compete in entrance of a panel of seasoned HR judges to proceed within the competitors. There will probably be three rounds of world competitors culminating within the closing match on the SHRM Annual Conference & Expo 2023.

Finalists will obtain an all-expenses-paid journey consisting of flight and resort lodging for 2 firm representatives to the convention, complimentary sales space area on the exposition corridor ground, and publicity to over 300,000 HR and enterprise govt members in 165 nations.

The winner, to be named on the convention, may also be awarded a money prize of $50,000.

“Winning SHRM’s Better Workplaces Challenge Cup has opened a lot of doors for us, leading to even greater international recognition, especially with HR teams looking to upskill their operational base and front-line workers,” mentioned Lissy Giacoman, co-founder and CEO of Vinco, an education-technology firm based mostly in Monterrey, Mexico. “With the greater connections, we are able to advance our mission to provide greater and better access to education.”

Since successful the competitors, Vinco has added extra worldwide schooling companions and expanded to new nations in Latin America like Colombia and Costa Rica.

Compt, a Boston-based perk stipend software program firm, won the inaugural SHRMLabs Better Workplaces Challenge Cup in 2021.

“We grew by nearly 500 percent the year we won,” mentioned Amy Spurling, Compt co-founder and CEO. “We are now supporting companies with employees in over 60 countries while still maintaining 91 percent employee engagement across the platform. Because of this, we were able to secure our Series A funding in March. Additionally, our team has grown three times in size while remaining diverse to meet the unique needs of our customers.”