2025 Global Human Capital Trends
Navigating complex tensions and choices in the worker-organisation relationship
Our 2025 Deloitte Human Capital Trends report, Turning Tensions into Triumphs: Helping Leaders Transform Uncertainty into Opportunity, explores how both external and internal factors are creating tensions that complicate decision-making and stall progress.
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Download the full 2025 Belgian Human Capital Trends Insights
In the face of constant change and uncertainty, organisations are working to optimise human performance—a key theme from last year’s report. Yet in our 2025 Global Human Capital Trends survey of 10,000 leaders from 93 countries, only 6% of respondents say they’re making great progress in establishing human performance.
Our 2025 report aims to help leaders find balance between these tensions in the worker-organisation relationship and start thriving. Explore the 2025 report for key questions organisations must face about their work, workforce, and organisation and culture:
- How do I ensure the right work is being done, and in an optimal way?
- How do I access, develop, and motivate the necessary workforce?
- Do I have the right organisation and culture to enable performance?
Building on the 2025 Global Human Capital Trends report, the Belgian-specific Insights delve deeper into the local results of the trends and highlight the conclusions that derive from that.
According to the Belgian insights, ‘Stagility’ – the ability to strike a balance between agility and stability – tops the executive agenda, whereas for workers the need for more slack and focus time emerges as top organisational challenge. Overall, Belgian companies seem to be outpacing their global peers in tackling human capital challenges but must consider reshaping the role of the manager to continue their progress.
ZigZag HR Podcast Series on the Human Capital Trends
Episode #1: When work gets in the way of work
Tune in to the first of our ZigZag HR podcast series on the Human Capital Trends, where Yves Van Durme – Human Capital Partner and co- author of the Human Capital Trends report – explores how organizations can reclaim organizational capacity and free up workers to focus on what really matters.
Episode #2: Stagility and Motivation at the Unit of One
In the second episode of our ZigZag HR podcast series on the Human Capital Trends, Annelies Verbruggen – Organization Transformation leader – talks about Stagility: striking the right balance between stability and agility. She also discusses the importance of motivating at individual level and the benefits this brings to both employees and organizations.
Episode #3: How can organizations redefine the Human Experience in the age of AI?
Join Tom Verstraete in the third and final episode of our ZigZag HR podcast series on the Human Capital Trends. Tom – Human Capital AI leader – delves into the importance of having a strong human value proposition in the age of AI. Tom also discusses the experience gap and the role AI can play in this.
Get a glimpse of what our Deloitte Human Capital Masterclass 2025 edition had to offer
