[New] In 2026, effective workforce planning will depend less on reactive hiring and more on forward-looking demand modelling and flexible resourcing strategies.
Huntress
[New] Employers expect 39% of workers' core skills to change by 2030 and 59% of the workforce to need reskilling or upskilling. / USA
Rewordin
[New] Maryland's workforce partnership with RAISE US will design and pilot new corporate incentives to retrain and redeploy workers, fresh approaches to supporting people through job transitions, and training models tied to real employer demand.National Governors Association
[New] In 2026, success will hinge less on experimentation and more on institutionalizing AI - embedding it into finance, security, workforce structures, and regional architectures to deliver durable business value.
BusinessWorld Online
[New] 85% of employers plan to prioritize workforce upskilling by 2030, and that 59% of the global workforce will require retraining to remain effective in AI-augmented roles.INTELYCX
[New] The construction industry needs 499,000 new workers by 2026 to meet equilibrium, and nearly half of the current workforce could retire within the decade.
ABC Ohio Valley
[New] Artificial intelligence will reshape workforce planning and regulatory compliance across global fleets.
Digital Ship Media
[New] In five to 10 years AI will likely be seen as just another flavour in the evolution of advancing technologies in the workforce.
Campus Technology
[New] Adds AI Development as a Priority Research Area Under the USDA's Agriculture and Food Research Initiative: Modifying the AFRI will enable more research into AI and workforce development to develop and deploy AI technologies on farms.
U.S. Senator Ted Budd
Roughly half of the U.S. workforce is already enrolled in some form of freelance or contract work in 2026, and the gig economy is moving from $580 billion in 2025 toward more than $2 trillion by the mid-2030s.
IMS People Possible | Offshore Recruitment Services
Alice Han highlighted that 44% of China's workforce - 320 million people in the gig economy - is at risk of AI-driven disruption.
BigGo Finance
A third of organizations expect AI to reduce their workforce in the coming year, with anticipated reductions highest in service operations, supply chain, and software engineering.
AI Insider
The global healthcare workforce could face a shortage of nearly 10 million professionals by 2030, increasing the need for highly skilled and job-ready healthcare talent.
CliniLaunch
Over the next decade, 1.2 billion people are due to enter the global workforce, while 60% of the existing workforce will require retraining.
Coursera Blog
Looking further ahead, Gen Z and Millennials are projected to make up 74% of the global workforce by 2030.
www.limelightdigital.co.uk
By 2032, contingent workers are projected to comprise 60% of the U.S. workforce, a shift that demands a complete reimagining of traditional growth models.
VAILEXA
The health workforce is anticipated to fall short of what is needed by up to 3.2 million health care workers by 2026.
West Health Mosaic
A nationwide shortage of skilled workers could slow the construction of new semiconductor manufacturing plants across the United States and limit future chip production unless industry and government take additional steps to strengthen the workforce.
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Psychiatry workforce adequacy ranked in last place among twenty additional specialties in 2026 and 2038.
PubMed
By 2037, 43 states are projected to have inadequate psychiatric workforce coverage.
Mental Wealth Solutions
