5 ways COVID-19 has changed workforce management Changing leadership and management competences The COVID-19 crisis sent shockwaves through industries and economies, but perhaps its greatest impact has been the human one, namely fear and uncertainty
5. Workforce strategies - The Future of Jobs Report 2023 | World . . . In fact, possessing an effective employee training programme is seen as the top talent-attracting policy available to businesses in the Business Support and Premises Maintenance Services; Employment Services; Insurance and Pensions Management; and Research, Design and Business Management Services industries, though only 17% of the Mining and Metals sector see this as an effective way to
4. Workforce strategies - The Future of Jobs Report 2025 | World . . . In the Insurance and Pensions Management sector, 85% of companies expect this practice to improve talent availability Business practices to increase talent availability, 2025-2030 The Accommodation, Food, and Leisure, and Education and Training sectors witnessed the largest jump in prioritizing employee well-being between 2023 and 2025
6 work and workplace trends to watch in 2024 | World Economic Forum More women enter the workforce In 2020, the World Bank found that potential gains from closing economic gender gaps could unlock a “gender dividend” of $172 trillion for the global economy But the Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report 2023 found that the Economic Participation and Opportunity gap has only closed by just over 60%
See why EdTech needs agentic AI for workforce transformation The workforce ecosystem is expanding to include hired employees, professional service providers, crowdsourcing partners, independent workers, contractors and gig workers It is estimated that remote work will grow to 90 million jobs by 2030, according to a World Economic Forum white paper, The Rise of Global Digital Jobs
Gender gaps in the workforce - The World Economic Forum The Global Gender Gap Index annually benchmarks the current state and evolution of gender parity across four key dimensions (Economic Participation and Opportunity, Educational Attainment, Health and Survival, and Political Empowerment) It is the longest-standing index tracking the progress of numerous countries’ efforts towards closing these gaps over time since its inception in 2006
Future of work: Using technology to improve job matching Public-private collaboration ensures alignment between workforce policy, education systems and employer needs Context-specific design tailors job-matching systems to local digital infrastructure and socioeconomic conditions, enabling scalable innovation
Unlocking the hidden workforce of the longevity economy The size of the workforce and the productivity per worker are key factors in determining the GDP Fortunately, current developments provide potentially effective ways of enhancing productivity per worker, especially with the rise of artificial intelligence and other process improvements
What does Industry 4. 0 mean for workers? | World Economic Forum Disruptive technologies may radically change jobs and lead to upskilling and reskilling needs in the workforce To help inform the debate around how these technologies can be adopted in a human-centric, sustainable and effective way, The World Economic Forum and the University of Cambridge spoke to frontline workers from across the US, Europe and Asia
Global Gender Gap Report 2025 - The World Economic Forum For economies across the income spectrum, higher female labourforce participation can have an outsized positive impact on productivity by increasing the size and diversity of the workforce 4 This is a continued incentive for government and business to enhance women’s footprint in the economy beyond 40 2% in the workforce and 28 8% in management