Passive vs Active? Combining market intelligence&employee voice for what's ahead

2025 is shaping up to create a complex discourse in and about the workplace. Business-friendly labor policies are colliding with employee expectations. Immigration restrictions threaten to create skills shortages. Unions face uncertainty. Changes to overtime laws, reproductive care access, RTO mandates, and DEI programs are creating tension. Add to this the anxiety about AI transforming – or even eliminating – entire occupations. Headlines predict workforce upheaval, but what's really happening on the ground?

Like the data we collect, we have a choice: remain passive observers of change, or actively engage with the insights. How do we cut through the noise and replace fear with facts? How do we build an early warning system that transforms passive market intelligence and active employee feedback into actionable insights? What signals truly matter? Where should organizations focus their response?

Market data tells one story. Employee sentiment tells another. People Analytics sits at this intersection, uniquely positioned to separate signal from noise and identify where organizations can make meaningful impact – serving both people and profits. When we combine real workforce intelligence with authentic employee voice, we replace speculation with insight, anxiety with understanding, and paralysis with action.

To bridge these perspectives and help us prepare for what’s to come in 2025 we bring together two voices representing organizations that study these trends closely:

• Lisa Simon, Chief Economist at Revelio Labs, an industry leader in workforce intelligence believing that clear workforce information can create a world where the allocation of human capital is as efficient, transparent, and scientific as the allocation of financial capital, resulting in a more engaged and better performing workforce for everyone.
• Sumona De Graaf, founder of idealis, a human-centered leadership consultancy that publishes the “Pulse of U.S.Workforce” - a real-time data insights report on the evolving perspectives, attitudes, sentiments, and experiences of workers in the United States.

Join us as we close out 2024, celebrating the year's end in our traditional style while actively preparing for the changes ahead. Because in the face of transformation, the choice between staying passive or taking action makes all the difference.

Thank you to Revelio Labs for the generous support of our event!

This is a paid event to offset some of our operational costs. If you are unable to afford the registration fee - please email [email protected]

See you in December!
Stela, Jeremy, Philip, Ian, Ekta, Bennet

P.S. Spreading awareness about Transform Awards - great opportunity to nominate someone (or yourself too!) to get recognition for the great work you're doing. The category for "Reporting & Insights of 2025" is perfectly suited to our group. Deadline - Nov 27! Submit your entries here.