Technology, demographic shifts, evolving expectations… the transformation of work and workforce give us an opportunity to build a future that works for all of us. But what work do we want? The World Employment Confederation, in partnership with FT Longitude, surveyed senior executives from around the world to shed light on the scale of the challenges for how we work and how organisations manage talent.
Within the HR services industry, we’re convinced that work remains an essential part of people’s lives. In this era of enormous change there is an opportunity — and an imperative — to redefine what that means. It’s time to create the work we want.
Let’s start with a simple, but critical, question: What work do we want?
To try to answer that question, the World Employment Confederation commissioned FT Longitude to survey 715 senior executives from around the world, including 680 from Forbes Global 2000 companies and 35 from public sector organisations. What do they think about artificial intelligence? Are they finding talent in new places? How do they foresee our working lives evolving within the next five or ten years?
Our survey sheds light on the scale of the challenge presented by the today’s fast-changing environment for how we work and how organisations manage talent. Not only do businesses face a turbulent market – but employee expectations about work are changing hugely as well.
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of business leaders say talent planning has never been more difficult than it is today. |
82% say that the approaches used to find and retain talent in the past are no longer fit for purpose |
83% say that employees now value flexibility around where and when they work as much as other factors such as compensation |
Explore these drivers of change – and how employers can respond – across the three chapters of our research.
