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Middle East Human Capital Trends 2025

With the transformation of work driven by enhanced connectivity, robotics, and cognitive tools, new talent models and the gig economy are reshaping jobs in the Middle East

Navigating complex tensions and choices in the worker-organization relationship

Control or empowerment? Stability or agility? Automation or augmentation? Today’s leaders are facing complex choices across work, workforce, and organizational culture. But they don’t have to be either/or choices. This year’s trends aim to help leaders find traction in the tensions—and the right balance to support both business and human outcomes.

Explore how organizations are turning ambition into action

When work gets in the way of work: Reclaiming organizational capacity

Explore how organizations in Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Qatar streamline operations through digital transformation and strategic partnerships to overcome inefficiencies and drive national visions forward.

Stagility: Creating stability for workers so organizations can move at speed

Discover how Middle Eastern organisations adopt "stagility," balancing stability and agility through structured change management, skills-based workforce models, and inclusive talent strategies to help employees thrive amid rapid economic transformation.

New tech. New work. Your old value case will no longer be enough

Uncover how GCC organisations shift tech investment strategies to augment human capabilities and redefine work processes, focusing on human-centric metrics and cross-functional collaboration to align technology with workforce potential and improve outcomes.

AI is revolutionizing work. You need a human value proposition for the age of AI

Explore how Middle Eastern organisations evolve employee value propositions to integrate AI, enhancing human capabilities and fostering collaboration, autonomy, and continuous development while ensuring AI supports rather than replaces human potential.

Closing the experience gap: Reimagining readiness in a changing Middle East

Discover how organizations in the Middle East bridge the  "experience gap" threatening workforce transformation through apprenticeships, AI-enabled development tools, and reimagined work structures to align early-career workers' capabilities with employer expectations

What moves your people? Tapping into motivation at the unit of one.

Explore how Middle Eastern organizations enhance performance and retention by personalising motivation through manager-driven, modular, and tech-enabled strategies, aligning individual motivations with organisational goals to transform potential into performance.

Reinventing performance management processes will not unlock human performance. Here is what will

Uncover how Middle Eastern organizations redefineperformance by embedding well-being, manager relationships, and purpose into strategies, fostering adaptability and innovation to support sustainable growth and resilience.

Is there still value in the role of Managers in the organizations of today and tomorrow?

Discover how organizatiosn in the Middle Eastreinvent the manager role amid AI-driven workplace transformation by freeing up time with AI, building judgment through experience, and redesigning development, empowering managers to drive resilience, innovation, and transformation.

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Samir Khayzaran

Samir Khayzaran

Partner | Organizational & Work Transformation Leader
+971 (0) 50 708 1247
Dania Nourallah

Dania Nourallah

Partner | Human Capital
+971 (0) 56 724 6332