1、Elevating Humans in an Era of AI andDisruption2026 HUMANS AT WORK BAROMETERContentsIntroduction:Work is changing faster thanmostorganizations.3Chapter 1:The profitability paradox.6Chapter 2:The leadership bubble.14Chapter 3:The visibility crisis.21Chapter 4:The deskless divide.28Chapter 5:The recogn
2、ition shortfall.33Chapter 6:When milestones miss the moment.39Chapter 7:Global snapshot.43Conclusion:Recognition as critical workforceinfrastructure.45Methodology:About this study.49INTRODUCTION:Work is changing faster thanmostorganizationsCompanies have robust infrastructure for seeing their financ
3、ial reality.Most have far less for seeing their human one.This report documents what that gap costs and what the organizations that are closing it are doingdifferently.Something has shifted in how work feels.Not everywhere and not uniformly but persistently,and across every country in this years“Hum
4、ans at Work Barometer”study.The pressure is higher.The pace is harder to sustain.Trust in leadership is weaker than it used to be.Generative AI is reshaping roles faster than most organizations are preparing people for what comes next.And the systems businesses rely on to understand their people per
5、formance reviews,engagement surveys,job descriptions were built for a way of working that is increasingly inadequate to describe whats actually happening in the workplace.The“Humans at Work Barometer”exists to quantify what employees are experiencing at work and to surface the gaps between what the
6、business believes is happening and what their people report.We have been studying workforce experience for over a decade.What makes this report a barometer rather than a snapshot is the ability to track how things are shifting year over year.Some of what we found in 2026 confirms patterns weve been