Workforce of the Future

Also called people, talent or human capital strategy – is all about preparing your workforce to deliver on your business strategy.

Depending on the business imperatives triggering action on workforce planning, we help you develop and implement responses using a broad and varied set of tools and mechanisms.

Your decision to start on a workforce strategy journey can be prompted by many factors:

• Sometimes a need to optimise your business and cost model necessitates work in areas such as product & service innovation, revenue recovery & cost management, integrated business & performance management, supply chain resilience or deals/M&A.
• The pressure of regulatory change can trigger adjustments in areas such as product plan resources and skills to adapt to regulations and requirements, managing legal & regulatory change, planning for changes in federal and cantonal workforce policies, and SEC/ESG reporting and disclosures.
• The rapid evolution of a hybrid workforce is often forcing the agenda in terms of planning for a hybrid workforce, real estate strategy, employee experience, safety & wellbeing, capacity & workforce planning.
• Employees’ need for purpose & inclusion is driving change under the banner of purpose & trust, diversity, inclusion & equity, employability & skills & good jobs, mobility & tax and employee engagement.
• And then of course there’s digital transformation and using it to address areas such as future skills & workforce models, redesign of work & workplace, adoption of digital channels & tools, business case realisation, talent strategy & programmes, and sustainable productivity.

Modern human resource functions are expected to drive business impact and enable organisations to adapt to a rapidly evolving landscape. Our HR transformation service helps you develop and implement detailed actions to concrete challenges while always keeping the broader HR and business landscape in mind.

When you approach us with a problem or objective seeking a concrete solution, we have a broad range of approaches to choose from, carefully coordinated and taking account of your organisation’s HR maturity:

• Approaches based on talent acquisition and retention can span everything from an inclusive workplace and roles supporting work/life balance to strategic hiring to access skill sets in the gig economy – all designed to harness opportunities to attract and retain the best people.
• Solutions revolving around HR technology, analytics, and automation involve harnessing HR tech, redesigned roles and big-data-backed decisionmaking to help you achieve business growth.
• By helping you focus on people development we can help you achieve collaboration across HR and the business as well as create everyday development opportunities and transparency on your performance management processes, all facilitating experiential learning that accelerates the development of your people.
• Our total rewards solutions enable you to optimise your operating model and encourage the use of benefits, also promoting experiential learning and facilitating the accelerated development of your people.

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Deals and restructuring are a powerful tool for responding to market challenges and pursuing value in a digital future – but only if you get the people side of the equation is right. We help you do precisely this with services ranging from COVID-19 business recovery, portfolio optimisation and strategic planning, to transaction execution and value realisation.

To make sure you gain a balanced mix of talented people, technologies and innovative ideas to accelerate your growth, we also offer the following services:

• HR due diligence and pre-deal HR strategy
• HR and human capital in mergers & acquisitions
• HR and human capital in divestitures, carve-outs, and spin-offs
• Leadership and Organisation in Deals

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Sometimes becoming a transformative organisation capable of radically reinventing yourself in the face of fast-moving disruption requires special skills and capabilities. We bring leading thinking and innovative applications of technology to help clients outperform competitors and capture value with the right strategy, capabilities and workforce.

We offer a portfolio of specialist HR expertise in areas you might be lacking in-house capabilities:

• We have employment law services to address the entire spectrum of transformation, including (but not limited to) HR and legal aspects, reorganisations, M&A, employment law due diligence, transfer of undertaking (TUPE), managing employee relations, collective labour agreements and social plans, employment agreements and terms & conditions, cross-border employment arrangements, managing global employment law compliance, diversity and inclusion.
• Our people analytics capabilities are all designed to help you make smarter people management decisions, ranging from capability development, data management and governance, talent analytics and predictive analysis, workforce surveys, Saratoga benchmarking and talent assessments.
• Our diversity and inclusion solutions help your organisation draw on and reward a richer pool of talent and ideas – not just the right thing to do, but the only sensible thing to do in challenging times.
• Our trump card is Equal-Salary certification: independent, government- and court-recognised proof that you’re walking the talk on pay equality.

Transformation requires leadership mindsets and skills that may be new to your organisation. We offer a full range of services to give your leaders confidence and put them firmly in the driving seat of transformation.

• Our change management support ranges from help with designing and driving change and building workforce engagement, draw on change analytics, hone your cultural values and purpose, capitalise on cultural, organisational and social network analytics, and plan your culture and its evolution.
• Our transformative leadership support helps you assess and select potential leaders, identify and develop leadership pipelines, train and develop your leadership talent and high-performing teams, and educate your people in leading for disruption and transformation – and extends to executive coaching.