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Keeping up with social, demographic and business trends presents a massive challenge to HR leaders. Their job requirements continually change as outsourcing expands, new laws emerge, workforce demographics shift and economic tides ebb and flow.

HR professionals who attended and spoke at the Benefits Management Forum & Expo in September discussed how these trends are impacting them.

Gary Snodgrass, chief HR officer at Exelon Corp., noted that business is "ever changing. It's dynamic. If we keep trying to buy yesterday's solutions to today's problems, we're l

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