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Sustainability for the human-centered future of work

Human sustainability—a concept we introduced in our 2023 Global Human Capital Trends report—calls for organizations to focus less on how much people benefit their organization and more on how much their organization benefits people.

Discover what it means for leaders to put people at the center of today’s human-powered economy—and how it can unlock an environment of sustainable, positive outcomes in the future of work. Join host David Mallon, Deloitte’s Sue Cantrell, and Eightfold.ai’s Jason Cerrato in this latest episode of the Capital H podcast—followed by a special Deloitte roundtable discussion.

So what are people doing in your organization in the workplace? What skills are they developing? What training are they taking? What interactions are they having? Are they having mentoring conversations? Are they doing things in your community? Are they doing things with volunteering? What things are they doing to develop in their career? As we’ve been using a lot of technologies that have been built around jobs, a lot of our systems were tracking what it meant for the role that they were occupying, and not necessarily all of the work that they were doing, or all of these things that may have often been perceived as extracurricular, when they’re really not extracurricular, right? So when we talk about what does it mean to be part of that ‘S’ in the ESG, this helps paint a bigger picture to have a more complete strategy and, again, tie it more to the individual and the human and the talent, and not just the role or the job.

— Jason Cerrato, Eightfold.ai