Survey: Digital work world forcing organizational changes few are ready to execute
A major survey has found that disruptive changes in digital technology, business models and workforce demographics are forcing 92% of business and HR leaders to identify the need to redesign their organization to address global business demands as vital.
By Tom Starner
Unfortunately, only 14% of those same executives believe their company is ready to redesign their organization, according to Deloitte’s “Global Human Capital Trends 2016: The new organization, Different by design,” now in its fourth year.
The survey, which polled more than 7,000 HR and business leaders across 130 countries, found in its first three years that employers placed a high priority on increasing employee engagement and retention, improving leadership and building a meaningful culture. But the 2016 study found, for the first time, that nearly half of respondents (45%) are either in the middle of a restructuring (39%) or are planning one (6%).