2025 Global Human Capital Trends

HR, workforce, and workplace trends of the future

Deloitte Human Capital's flagship report, “Turning tensions into triumphs: Helping leaders transform uncertainty into opportunity,” features research-based thought leadership that focuses on the choices leaders must navigate to optimize human performance.

Human Capital Trends: Turning tensions into triumphs

In our 2024 Global Human Capital Trends report, we introduced the need for organizations to focus on both human and business outcomes. But progress on optimizing human performance has been slow, even with new technology and artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities. Plus, external and internal factors are creating tensions that complicate and inhibit decision-making.

Success moving forward will require leaders to make tough choices across multiple dimensions, asking themselves key questions across three areas, color-coded to match the corresponding trends below. How leaders answer these questions—and work to find balance in the tensions they inevitably create—can enable organizations to stop waiting and start thriving in today's fast-paced and constantly changing work environment.

Work

How do I ensure the right work is being done in the optimal way?

Workforce

How do I access, develop, and motivate the necessary talent?

Organization and culture

Do I have the right organization and culture to enable performance?

Navigating these tensions isn't about picking a side. It's about finding a balance. An infographic comparing various metrics on a scale.

The 2025 Global Human Capital Trends

Explore our thought leadership across work, workforce, and organization and culture.

Deloitte Insights: 2025 Global Human Capital Trends Report

Our in-depth report dives into the HR trends around work, workforce, organization and culture that are changing the way we work. How will your organization apply these trends to drive human performance?

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