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Over the past year, I’ve written several posts on scenario planning as a critical tool for envisioning possible business futures and informing talent strategies. Building on those resources, this new 20-page paper explores how AI advancements and talent trends, and their potential trajectories through 2030, could reshape the future of jobs. It outlines four future-of-jobs scenarios informed by two dimensions: 1) AI advancement: the pace and scale of progress in the capability and autonomy of AI technologies, and 2) Workforce Readiness: the availability of skills that prepare workers for an AI-driven economy. Together, these make up four distinct scenarios: 1) Supercharged Progress, 2) The Age of Displacement, 3) Co-Pilot Economy, and 4) Stalled Progress. While you’ll need to read the report to gain the full context for each scenario, one example is Supercharged Progress: AI advances at an extraordinary pace, reshaping industries, business models, and workflows as productivity and innovation accelerate through widespread adoption of advanced, agentic AI. While many jobs disappear, broad workforce readiness enables new roles to emerge and scale quickly, with humans increasingly orchestrating intelligent systems as governance, ethics, and social safety nets struggle to keep pace. Regardless of the scenario, page 16 provides nine “no regrets” moves, such as starting small, building fast, and scaling what works, that can help organizations prepare for multiple scenarios.
