ABOUT OUR WORK

GLOBAL STANDARDS COMMUNITY

Founded in 1999, the HR Open Standards Consortium is the only independent, non-profit, volunteer-led organization dedicated to the development and promotion of a standard suite of specifications to enable human-resource-related data exchanges.

Our voluntary consensus standards are free. Current, global HR vocabularies are developed in a transparent, collaborative based environment open to all HR technologists and organizations.

VISION

Global adoption of HR Open Standards through broad collaboration.

MISSION

HR Open provides the place where industry leaders collaborate to enable innovation.

VALUES

Open Standards: Participation ensures your company’s HR technology needs are addressed. Allows a focus on solution differentiation instead of vendor lock-in.

Networking & Alliances: Provides an environment to collaborate with like-minded colleagues of different skill sets and job functions. Creates opportunities to work with top-level management across the industry to form business alliances.

Engagement & Expertise: Access, insight, and input into best practices and technology direction and the opportunity to participate in all aspects.

Level Playing Field: All organizations, regardless of size, have access to the same resources and can bring perspectives to the table.

Resource Utilization: Saves research and development time, investment, and human capital compared to custom implementation.

GET TO KNOW HR OPEN

HR Open Standards has 3 slide shows providing an overview of HR Open and our development process. Please feel free to download any of the slide shows for your use.