Workforce of the future
9 December 2019
How digital workers are changing the nature of work and the shape of organisations.
The Intelligent Automation market is predicted to grow at 30% per annum for the next five years. Digital workers, enabled by Intelligent Automation, are going to be unavoidable. But where do they and humans fit best? How will this change organisations and the nature of work? How will the relationship work between bots and humans?
In this whitepaper we’ve pooled our collective expertise and reviewed the latest thinking by others to try to answer the big question: what does the workforce of the future look like? We don’t profess to have all the answers but hope you are inspired by it.
Download the whitepaper to discover:
- How robots are making work more human
- How we can reimagine business models and services
- And how to set yourself up for success
Our latest insights
Lateral hiring is at record levels. Business cases are more rigorous than they have ever been, and the investment in finding and landing senior talent has never been higher. And yet integration outcomes remain stubbornly inconsistent. The hire is getting more sophisticated but what happens next often is not.
For a long time, the war for talent was a skills race. Which candidate had done the launch, led the transformation, shipped the product. The logic was simple: find the person who has already done the thing you need done. That logic no longer holds.
Ask most HR leaders to describe strategic workforce planning and you'll get a familiar answer: forecasting headcount, modelling future demand, identifying gaps.
Pushback from leadership is often framed as resistance to HR. In practice, it usually points to something else. It signals that HR is not yet shaping decisions at the level it could be.