The 2023/2024 Skills Snapshot Survey report 

Reskilling employees is the #1 workforce initiative for executives, and HR ranks and re-designing talent processes around skills as their second highest priorities, according to our latest research. Leading organisations are already looking at ways to weave skills into their established performance-based approaches. Do you measure up?

Mercer’s annual Skills Snapshot Survey collects benchmarking data from multinationals worldwide to uncover key trends, challenges and opportunities around skills-based talent practices, gauging market progress year by year. The research report will provide you with actionable insights and data to benchmark your approaches against peers and optimise your efforts. 

The limited but growing use of skills in workforce planning; projects and gigs; and work design suggests companies start with use cases that are simpler and less disruptive. For instance, increasing projects and gigs requires changing how talent flows to work; work design changes what, whom and how work is performed; and workforce planning has far-reaching downstream impacts on talent assessment, development and flexible talent pools. Accordingly, skills-based practices related to employee attraction, development and retention are already the norm. 

Are you looking to take a skills-first approach to talent management, but not sure where to start? Mercer has you covered. Our experts have outlined five key steps to help you get started on your journey towards a more agile and flexible workforce.