the COVID-19 pandemic has forced a reckoning between career ambitions and family aspirations for many women, and what companies can do to help them....

Employees expect their jobs to bring a significant sense of purpose to their lives. Employers need to help meet this need, or be prepared to lose talent to companies that...

The pandemic accelerated existing trends in remote work, e-commerce and automation, with up to 25% more workers than previously estimated potentially needing to switch occupations....

An analysis of 2,000 tasks, 800 jobs, and nine countries....

Organizations need to invest in effective long-term remote-working foundations, revamp their upskilling and retraining approaches, and adopt an agile approach to strategic workforce planning....

The road from education to employment is full of more disconnects than ever. Research from the McKinsey Global Institute finds that workers from ages 18 to 34 hold almost 40%—or 14.7 million—of...

Despite talk of the "glass ceiling" preventing women from reaching senior leadership positions, the biggest obstacle that women face is much earlier in the pipeline, at the first step up...

It’s not enough to think or talk about “retraining” and “reskilling.” Instead, employers, employees, educational institutions, and public-sector leaders need to start talking about “lifelong employability”: helping people continually and...

Fully 60 percent of global executives in a recent McKinsey survey expect that up to half of their organization’s workforce will need retraining or replacing within five years. An additional...

At a time when many companies are engineering jarring transformational changes to become more agile, digitally enabled, and proactive competitors, it is more important than ever that employees find meaning...