Datasheet
Balancing workforce tensions with AI and human potential
This datasheet by Deloitte highlights where organizations are feeling the most pressure — and how leaders can respond with a people-first approach to AI.
Balancing workforce tensions with AI and human potential
Overview
Summary
The 2025 Deloitte Global Human Capital Trends report reveals a critical tension: How organizations harness new technologies while keeping people at the center of work. This datasheet highlights where organizations are feeling the most pressure—and how leaders can respond with a people-first approach to AI.
Through the Eightfold lens, it covers three priorities to help navigate today’s workforce challenges:
- Prioritize the people doing the work – A skills-first approach empowers employees, improves engagement, and drives stronger retention.
- Unlock new value with agentic AI – Pairing human capability with AI accelerates decisions, reduces busywork, and fuels workforce readiness.
- Close the experience gap – AI identifies transferable skills to align people with roles for future success.
By balancing technology and human potential, organizations can chart a path toward greater resilience, productivity, and long-term growth.
Organizations consider new tech because they want to do more, faster and decrease costs. However only 62% of organizations said organizing & orchestrating new tech is critically important, but 28% of organizations are doing something meaningful about it.
Unlock new value with the right new tech
Those that create value from people and machines working together are unlocking the most persuasive business cases for AI — especially agentic AI. Max AI value = people + agentic AI working together.
How Eightfold can help
Eightfold agentic AI for recruiting adapts to your team — offering generative insights, assistance, and augmenting complex processes. By cutting busywork and enhancing decision making, Eightfold lets you focus on building a workforce ready for the future.
Prioritize the people doing the work
Technology’s value doesn’t come from replacing human labor. In fact, people are at the heart of AI’s potential.
- 60% already think of AI as a coworker
- 54% are concerned about blurred distinctions between the work done by humans & technology
How Eightfold can help
Eightfold helps leaders understand, engage, and retain top-performing employees with a skills-first approach. The Eightfold AI-native Talent Intelligence Platform assists in identifying best-fit talent, nurturing existing talent, and creating personalized learning and career paths for employees.
Close the experience gap
Finding the right talent is harder than ever with changing job requirements and growing experience gaps.
What leaders think they want:
- Years spent on directly related job tasks –>
- Non-transferable to other roles
What leaders need
- Application of skills / capabilities in real-world context
- Transferable to other roles
How Eightfold can help
Pairing the right jobs to the workers with the right skills is the answer. The Eightfold Talent Intelligence Platform uses AI to identify workforce skills, match employees to roles aligned with their strengths, and support business goals – preparing teams for future success.