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Shaping the future workforce

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You recognise the value your people bring to your organisation. They’re the life force that creates value and profit.

To stay competitive and productive you want to adapt your business to harness new technology – such as artificial intelligence (AI) and automation. And you want to rapidly digitalise by using data and cloud in smarter ways.

You need to remap your workforce’s skills - in a way that’s sympathetic to their needs. Whatever the shape of your workforce, we can help align it to your organisation’s goals – and together we can build a strategy for an adaptive, augmented workforce. One that not only trusts, but champions technology.

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Empowering your workforce

From creating employee experiences that drive retention, to using AI and emerging technologies to enhance your people’s performance, we can solve your most complex challenges, so you can increase productivity, boost capacity and drive success.

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As you transform your business, you know you need to change the way your people work alongside technology.

Getting your workforce model right is vital to your future performance.

You need to remap your skills to stay commercially competitive: harness AI and automation and rapidly digitalise. Reskilling is a huge competitive opportunity. One that requires you to have the right approach, the right timing and the right new skills. You also need to reach new talent differently.

We work with you to drive rapid reinvention and sustained workforce success.

52%

of UK CEOs plan to reskill their people this year

PwC’s 28th UK CEO Survey

Whatever the shape of your workforce, you need to understand how it aligns to achieving your organisation’s goals. But that can be governed by a hundred different factors – such as time, place, external influences, strategy and resource.

We help you understand how these factors interconnect. So that you know what you need to do to shape your future workforce. And you’re able to protect and look after your people, while inspiring them to delight your customers and deliver your business strategy.  

“PwC offers a differentiated combination of expertise across HR, business, and people strategies and resource management that serves organisations looking to understand how HR and people strategies mesh with business goals and planning.”

IDC MarketScapeWorldwide Employee Experience Consulting Services 2022–2023 Vendor Assessment

Your people’s concerns today aren’t the same as yesterday’s. They value social mobility, sustainability, a better work life balance and good career progression. You need to keep them healthy and safe – physically and mentally.

And you know that of course your future workforce isn’t just the people working for you now. They’re those you might be hiring in the next year – or the next decade.

So, you need stay on top of the elements that shape that future workforce. We can help you embrace a dynamic future with multiple evolving workforce scenarios – whether you need radical action or smaller steps.

30%

of employees experienced more change at work in the past year than in the previous 12 months

Hopes and Fears, 2024

You want to use workforce technology smartly to make your people functions and experience smoother and more joined up. There are huge productivity and cost efficiency opportunities too.

We’ve spent more than a decade innovating with emerging technology, such as AI, to shape the world’s future workforces, including our own. And our alliances with leading technology brands as well as specialised players means we can help you power your goals and boost results.

We constantly scan the horizon for new ways of helping clients get the best from their people and technology. Now – and for your future.

“CEOs need to keep building the AI muscle within their organisation. There is an incredible engine there to drive growth, but it will require a range of real-world enablers to generate value at scale. This is a business project, a change management project, not just a technology project.”

Umang PawChief Technology Officer, PwC UK

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Peter Brown

Peter Brown

Leader, Global Workforce, PwC United Kingdom

Tel: +44 (0)7789 003712

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