What’s next for remote work
An analysis of 2,000 tasks, 800 jobs, and nine countries....
The future of work: Reskilling and remote working to recover in the ‘next normal’
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....
Will robots take your job before you even graduate?
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...
Women in the Workplace 2019: ‘Broken rung’ stops women from moving into management
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...
Competitive advantage with a human dimension: From lifelong learning to lifelong employability
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...
Are we long – or short – on talent?
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...
Making work meaningful: A leader’s guide
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...