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Investing in your workforce is investing in your future

The new normal is ushering in an entirely different future, but it’s not happening in a bubble. The “Future of Work” discussion has been underway for some time, and leaders who embrace this opportunity to accelerate workforce strategy transformation as part of their broader business strategy will come out ahead.

PwC’s Workforce Strategy solution ties directly to your business strategy to help you prioritize across 5 key workforce ecosystem areas that are critical to driving business outcomes. We take a human-centered approach, powered by a suite of digital products and analytic tools. Our insights shape a strategy that’s unique to your business and drives results to meet your long-term planning needs.

Build your workforce strategy

5 key focus areas across the workforce ecosystem to drive greater business outcomes

Company's strategy
Critical capabilities

Align the culture and prepare for change
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Operating Model

Talent Planning

Learning and Innovation

Employee Experience

Work Environment

Operating model defines the formal mechanisms for how work gets done by whom in your organization and how decisions get made.

Key considerations

How does your organizational design enable your business strategy and culture?

Where do decision rights sit? Are they consistent with the future of the business, enabling the strategic agenda and cultural shifts?

How can processes enable, versus prevent, the organization’s efforts to evolve and adopt new ways of working?

Top areas of focus

Organization structure

Organization roles, accountabilities, and decision rights

Management processes

Performance management

Talent planning is a continual process used to align the needs and priorities of the organization. It involves evaluating your organization’s current talent against the current and future state talent needs necessary to achieve your strategic objectives.

Key considerations

What’s the impact on your strategic workforce planning?

How will you evolve your sourcing strategy (build/buy/rent)?

How will you advance your D&I agenda?

How will your job architecture change?

Top areas of focus

Job architecture

Sourcing strategy

Leadership planning

Strategic workforce planning

Diversity and inclusion

Connecting a rich learning ecosystem with practical, on-the-job application and coaching leads to sustained impact on business results.

Key considerations

How will you lead differently?

What new skills and capabilities are needed from the workforce?

How will you upskill / reskill the workforce?

How will you accelerate citizen-led innovation?

Top areas of focus

Leadership development

L&D strategy

Digital fitness / upskilling

The employee experience is the sum total of the interactions and experiences a person has with the company throughout the employee lifecycle.

Key considerations

How will you understand employees’ evolving preferences and needs?

How will you help establish an exceptional employee experience and wellness / well-being?

How do your policies and rewards need to change?

Top areas of focus

Meaningful work

Leadership experience

Organization experience

Technology experience

Workplace experience

Consideration of your work environment from an overall workforce strategy perspective enables peak performance by increasing innovation, employee experience and productivity while decreasing or re-allocating costs.

Key considerations

How must ways of working evolve?

Will your future ways of working unlock real estate opportunities?

How will you create appropriate remote environments?

What technology and mobility are required?

Top areas of focus

Location strategy

Labor market analytics

Workplace environment

Mobility & technology

Avoid common pitfalls in your workforce strategy

Read more about PwC's five workforce strategy priorities and common pitfalls to avoid when building your "Future of Work" plan.