This dynamic peer community will help industry partners achieve new levels of productivity and stability by putting people at the heart of the manufacturing and supply chain. By establishing a framework for evaluating best practices, we will identify solutions that enhance the attraction, skilling, and retention of frontline talent—a critical need as global manufacturing faces a talent shortage.
The Frontline Talent of the Future examines solutions to enhance the attraction, skilling, and retention of frontline talent

Over 70% of businesses identifying attracting and retaining talent as a primary barrier for business transformation. Addressing workforce challenges requires a fresh approach—one that goes beyond traditional strategies to embrace innovative and proven practices for attracting, retaining, upskilling, and reskilling industrial workers, ultimately enhancing both workforce stability and operational productivity.

As per Future of Jobs report, about 40% of the core skillsets in manufacturing are changing in next 3 years and 1 in 2 people will need some sort of upskilling and training. It is essential to identify the changing skill sets, roles, tasks, and workflows that support effective and responsible human-machine collaboration, and to explore how organizations and governments can proactively prepare their workforce to thrive in increasingly automated and intelligent manufacturing and supply chain environments.
Through research, experimentation and knowledge exchange, we aim to drive meaningful change.

Sharing knowledge and insights about the best approaches to attract, retain, upskill and reskill frontline workforce as part of the Frontline Talent Champions community.

Developing and piloting talent strategies that enable organizations to unlock new level of productivity and stability

Elevating voice of frontline workforce, showcasing human-centric industrial sites, upskilling and reskilling in action, and worker safety and wellbeing initiatives enabling workforce engagement
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Frontline Talent of the Future
A World Economic Forum Initiative