2023 Global Human Capital Trends

The boundaries that were once assumed to be the natural order of things are falling away as disruption and discontinuity challenge traditional models and assumptions about work. Organizations and workers must traverse this new landscape together, calling on a new set of fundamentals to navigate the boundaryless world.

2023 Global Human Capital Trends

The boundaries that were once assumed to be the natural order of things are falling away as disruption and discontinuity challenge traditional models and assumptions about work. Organizations and workers must traverse this new landscape together, calling on a new set of fundamentals to navigate the boundaryless world.

2023 Global Human Capital Trends

Deloitte’s 2023 Global Human Capital Trends survey polled 10,000 business and HR leaders across every industry, with 105 countries participating. The survey data is complemented by interviews with executives from some of today’s leading organizations. The insights shaped the trends in this report.

New fundamentals for a boundaryless world

In a boundaryless world, work isn’t defined by jobs, the workplace isn’t a specific place, and many workers aren’t traditional employees. Those who partner with workers and experiment with what’s possible will create sustainable work models and elevated outcomes—making work better for humans and humans better at work.™

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Framing the challenge:
Think like a researcher

Organizations and workers should activate their curiosity, looking at each decision as an experiment that will expedite impact and generate new insights.

Charting a new path: Cocreate the relationship

Organizations and workers will need to learn to navigate this new world together—cocreating new rules, new boundaries, and a new relationship.

Designing for impact:
Prioritize human outcomes

Organizations should create impact not only for their business, their workers, or their shareholders but for the broader society as well.

Framing the challenge: Think like a researcher

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Navigating the end of jobs

Skills replace jobs as the focal point for matching workers with work

ARTICLE 8 MIN READ

Powering human impact with technology

Technology contributes to making work better for humans and humans better at work™

ARTICLE 8 MIN READ

Activating the future of workplace

The workplace evolves to be an input to the work itself

ARTICLE 8 MIN READ

Charting a new path: Cocreate the relationship

Negotiating worker data

Organizations and workers vie for control of worker data when they should focus on mutual benefits

ARTICLE 9 MIN READ

Harnessing worker agency

Organizations drive value and strengthen their relationship with workers by embracing rising worker influence

ARTICLE 9 MIN READ

Unlocking the workforce ecosystem

Removing traditional employment distinctions unlocks access to a true workforce ecosystem—and with it, critical skills and worker potential

ARTICLE 9 MIN READ

Designing for impact: Prioritize human outcomes

Taking bold action for equitable outcomes

The DEI conversation shifts from activities to outcomes

ARTICLE 12 MIN READ

Advancing the human element of sustainability

Human sustainability rises to the fore of organizations’ sustainability strategies

ARTICLE 9 MIN READ

Elevating the focus on human risk

Opening the aperture and changing the lens on risks to focus on the human element

ARTICLE 9 MIN READ

Leading in a boundaryless world

Your organization and its leaders are facing a pivotal reframing moment as business and societal shifts continue to change the trajectory of organizations’ human agendas. To thrive, leaders must evolve in tandem with their organizations and adopt a new set of fundamentals to mobilize workers and teams against new outcomes.

Reimagining leadership

Leadership in a boundaryless world is less about formal authority and more about use of insight, personal accountability, connection to values, and action.

This means you

Leaders today can be anyone who mobilizes workers to get work done and is no longer contingent on position, hierarchy, or the number of direct reports.

The choice in front of you

This is your opportunity to take advantage of the lack of boundaries to reframe your role in creating the future of your organization.

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MEET THE CONTRIBUTORS

Kraig Eaton

Partner

Deloitte Consulting LLP

Steve Hatfield

Partner

Deloitte Consulting LLP

Shannon Poynton

Senior manager

Deloitte Consulting LLP

John Forsythe

Managing director

Deloitte Consulting LLP

Lauren Kirby

Manager

Deloitte Consulting LLP

Nicole Scoble-Williams

Partner

Deloitte Tohmatsu
Consulting LLC

Michael Griffiths

Partner

Deloitte Consulting LLP

David Mallon

Vice president

Deloitte Consulting LLP

Yves Van Durme

Partner

Deloitte Consulting

2023 Global Human Capital Trends

2023 Global Human Capital Trends

2023 Global Human Capital Trends

New fundamentals for a boundaryless world

Framing the challenge:
Think like a researcher

Charting a new path: Cocreate the relationship

Designing for impact:
Prioritize human outcomes