Future of Work Trends for 2024
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To succeed this year and beyond, Gartner recommends you evaluate how these nine trends will impact your organization so you can get ahead of the challenges your organization is bound to experience.
Each of the trends is critical to navigating talent challenges and aligns with one of four themes: managing the shift in the employee value proposition (EVP), augmenting critical skills for managers, evolving career assumptions, and experimenting with and implementing?artificial intelligence.
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Theme 1: Shifting EVP
Four-day workweeks go from radical to routine. A talent shortage is making it more difficult to attract and retain employees, and organizations are evaluating whether shifting toward a condensed workweek will meet growing employee expectations for flexibility as well as the organization's objectives. In fact, 63% of candidates rated “four-day workweek” as the top future of work offering that would attract them to a job.
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Theme 2: New manager necessities
Employee conflict resolution is the next must-have skill for managers. With upcoming elections, geopolitical crises, labor strikes, climate change and pushback to DEI efforts, the environment is ripe for differences of opinion. Managers who manage, rather than silence, interpersonal conflict among employees will have an outsize positive impact on their organizations.
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Theme 3: The collapse of career assumptions
Skills overtake degrees as the “paper ceiling” crumbles. College degrees are the top requirement listed in yesterday’s job descriptions. In response to the tight labor market and declining undergraduate graduation rates, organizations are shredding the “paper ceiling” and welcoming workers with alternative credentials.
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Theme 4: AI reshaping work
AI creates, not diminishes, workforce opportunity. Despite anxieties that AI will result in workforce cuts, we foresee AI actually enhancing workforce opportunity. Not only will implementing GenAI create the need for new roles, but it will also allow employers to reduce time to proficiency with new technology and specializations, easing the need to hire talent already skilled in these areas.
Read more about why GenAI experiments will likely yield hard lessons and painful costs — at least without sufficient risk management.
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Senior Data Architect at Dell Technologies
7 个月Very interesting times. Maybe a 4 day work week is the key to balancing out the cost of returning to office. As someone who has worked 4 day weeks in the past, the workload is never cut by 20%, I am sure anyone else who has done a 4 day week would attest to the same. I found it was very busy and I had to be super efficient , maybe work an extra hour here or there but it was nice to have that Friday off.
Fractional CMO focused on sales and marketing pipeline for growth companies
7 个月We are entering into a new paradigm at warp speed. Hang on tight, it's going to get bumpy. ?? ???? ?? "Change is the only constant" This seems a little overused but it's because most people don't like change. Ai, the 4-day workweek and alternative qualifications are not the future they are now. Fractional work and dynamic executive branch configurations will shape business going forward. To win in this environment you must reassess your skills offering and sharpen it with contextual futures.
Executive Assistant
7 个月"AI creates, not diminishes, workforce opportunity" I believe so too, and 2024 will be a turning point for the use of AI in business. ??
Founder/CEO of award-winning Myfolks Ltd after 25+ years leading in blue-chip tech. NHS CEP Patient Entrepreneur. Upstream of Isolation - Bringing Social Health. Community/Digital/Prevention. Speaker, Writer, NED.
7 个月Thanks. One that's missing is supporting a workforce that is caring as well as working. They're struggling.... and for businesses, that struggle impacts the bottom line in a number of ways. With our population aging but not necessarily well, and the pressures on public services, this problem is set to grow. Are you a caring-friendly employer? (Spoiler alert: f you think you don't have the issue in your organisation, you definitely aren't!)