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.
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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
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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.