As organizations leap into a boundaryless future, human performance is taking center stage. Explore the top trends of 2024 from an energy, resources, and industrials (ER&I) perspective.
Discover the Human Capital Trends 2024 report through an ER&I lens.
Global Human Capital Trends 2024
Top ER&I human capital trends in 2024
Discover the global human capital trends that rose to the top in 2024— based on a survey of more than 900 respondents across 70 countries in four sectors.
Focusing on trust and transparency
85% of ER&I respondents viewed increasing focus on trust and transparency in the relationship between workers and the organization as very important.
Fitting new ways of working
83% of ER&I respondents viewed evolving the role of managers and management practices to fit new ways of working as very important.
Managing evolving demands
80% of ER&I respondents viewed readiness of leaders to manage the evolving demands of the work and workforce as very important.
Top three trend barriers
ER&I respondents say the following obstacles are impeding their ability to address the above trends.
Internal constraints
Lack of leadership
alignment or commitment
Insufficient
understanding of issues,
risks, and opportunities
Trends with largest knowing vs. doing gaps
Imagination deficit
Regarding human imagination and curiosity in the organization to keep pace with technological innovation: 73% consider this trend very or critically important to their organizations’ success—but only 30% say their organization is doing something about it.
Leadership
On readiness of leaders to manage evolving demands of the work and workforce: 83% consider this trend very or critically important to their organizations’ success—but only 37% say their organization is doing something about it.