Global Future of Work Trends

The Human Edge

- Clear view of how AI, automation, and hybrid human–machine teams will reshape work in the next decade.

- Practical prompts you can use immediately for upskilling, talent, and leadership planning.

- Fresh global stats you can plug into exec decks and future-of-work narratives.

The Driving Forces Shaping the Workforce

For more than 10 years, we have partnered with our clients to explore four underlying forces shaping the future of work. This year’s research includes insights from surveys of more than 12,000 workers and 40,000 employers across 41 countries. 
 
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Hybrid Super Teams 
 
An increasingly diverse global workforce will impact the future of who is available to work, as well as when and how they’ll work. ​ 
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Rapid Relearning
 
The future of work will be won by those who truly qualify as fast learners. Workers will continually be called upon to develop new skills in keeping with ongoing AI integration, and their job effectiveness and productivity will be scrutinized like never before.
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Changing Norms 
 
Amidst an epidemic of social loneliness, geopolitical disruptions, and environmental stress, we are seeing the systems we know and trust hint at collapse. Current leaders yearn to turn the clock back.
 
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The Succession Crisis 
 
Four-year degrees no longer guarantee gainful employment, and “blue collar” jobs are gaining popularity, but the paths to them remain stigmatized and elusive. In corporations, a dearth of available leaders to oversee AI means that intermediate to advanced human expertise will be prized.

The future of work imperative in this report is to redesign work around human–AI “super teams” while tackling persistent talent shortages, skill gaps, and leadership droughts in an era of rapid change.

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