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Thriving Workplaces

How digital innovation can help elevate HR's organisational impact

Our whitepaper explores the key opportunities and challenges that organisations in the Middle East face when it comes to technological innovation, and how organisations can adopt the digital-first mindset needed to create thriving workplaces of the future.

1 in 2 executives believe that without AI their organisation will not survive beyond 2030.

[Source: Global Talent Trends 2024]

With the current pace of change and the rate at which technological changes are impacting organisations, the need for long-term workforce planning is now. While most organisations recognise that AI and technological disruption is an opportunity, many face challenges when it comes to transforming their current ways of working and shifting into a digital mindset. This exposes organisations to risks, especially when adopting new technologies without transforming the way they work and ensuring that their workforces are sufficiently adaptable to the new world of work.

Our whitepaper explores the key opportunities and challenges that organisations in the Middle East face when it comes to technological innovation, and how organisations can adopt the digital-first mindset needed to create thriving workplaces of the future.

"A key for driving the continued transformation of HR in 2024 and beyond is shifting from a focus on technology projects to a mindset of being a digital function. By focusing on adaptability, intentional human centred design and innovative technologies; HR will be in a position to be trusted, thriving and transformative as we continue to see change as a strategy and not the enemy." 

Jason Averbook, Global Leader HR Transformation, Gen AI and Digital Deployment, Mercer

Top insights for the Middle East

1 in 2

executives believe that without AI their organisation will not survive beyond 2023

After inflation, currency, and capital concerns (which inevitably rank #1 given the current geopolitical and economic landscape), digital acceleration, including AI, is the #2 near-term risk dominating executives’ three-year plans in the Middle East.

Nearly a third

(31%) of executives surveyed

in the Middle East view ‘Technological change and disruption risks’ as the biggest threats to their organisation in the next one to two years.

HR and Risk Professionals

rank ‘technological skills shortages’ as the #2 top people risk in the Middle East.

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Thriving Workplaces: How digital innovation can help elevate HR's organisational impact

Meet the contributors

Jason Averbook

Global Leader of HR Transformation, Gen AI and Digital Deployment, Mercer US

Andrew Brody

Head of Consulting, Mercer Marsh Benefits, MENA

Jamil Kabbaj Renou

Risk Management and MMB Multinational Leader, UAE