Workforce resilience and the talent crisis

Businesses are facing a talent crisis. Shortfalls in key skills are limiting the potential for business growth and are leading to unfilled vacancies. The Talent’s expectations of the employment experience are evolving at pace, and they are prepared to move on if they think their employer is not doing enough. As businesses respond to changing markets and seek to seize new opportunities, they are struggling to build the agility they need to deploy their people effectively.

This report draws on two new global surveys—one of executives, the other of talent—to reveal a disconnect between these two groups’ perspectives on working life. It is a warning to employers: having made progress through the pandemic and the Great Resignation, they now risk slipping backward on engagement.