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This white paper written by the World Economic Forum, in collaboration with Accenture, addresses key concerns on the impact of large language models on jobs and emphasises the need for businesses to adopt proactive and responsible strategies to manage these changes.
The paper serves as a toolkit for businesses, providing practical strategies in three primary areas: 1) job change and job displacement risk, 2) job quality, and 3) learning and skilling.
As employers continue to encounter major skills shortages, many qualified and willing workers remain unemployed or underemployed. If their circumstances were different, these ‘hidden workers’ would prefer to work more hours and represent a potential source of much needed labour. In this new report, Harvard Business School identifies six main categories of part-time hidden workers, each facing unique challenges and in need of different approaches by employers in the hiring process.
McKinsey’s new report examines how career moves pay off, particularly for a new position that pushes a candidate’s capabilities or better utilises their existing skills. The report concludes that employers can attract and retain talent by recognising potential and embracing learning.
LinkedIn’s new Workplace Learning report explores how learning and development is leading the way through the Great Reshuffle with jobs and promotions growing, increased budgets and fostering company culture. Organisations that prize constant learning will lead the world as they build the new normal.
Futurist Jacob Morgan explores how the world of work is continually changing, which impacts the environment in which leaders lead. The COVID pandemic has shown just how volatile and uncertain the world is and caused many leaders to re-evaluate their skills and mindsets. In many ways, the pandemic acted as a catalyst for many trends and greatly increased their impact. To succeed in the future, leaders have to be aware of what is happening in the world around them and how things are changing.
The Burning Glass Institute considers the trend in the US of employers resetting degree requirements in a wide range of roles, with major implications for how employers find talent. While the Covid-19 pandemic accelerated this process, this process began before the crisis and looks likely to continue after it.
Futurist, Jacob Morgan explains that human resources is evolving into more than just hiring and firing and has a huge impact on the employee experience and the future of work.
This report by the Institute for Employment Studies explores how generational progress could grind to a halt if nothing is done to minimise the unequal recovery from the pandemic for young people. In positive news, new research identifies green job opportunities through government investment in upskilling and Net-Zero strategies which could create 130,000 jobs for young people.
This IOC is a qualitative study of the impact of pandemic-era disruptions on organizations, leaders, leadership, and leadership coaching.
The IOC collaboration is a first of its kind - 24 coaches, 12 months, and close to 1,000 collective hours went into the report.
The pandemic strained and tested the worker-employer relationship beyond anyone’s anticipation. Going forward, thriving in an uncertain future depends on having a compelling vision for where that relationship should go.
