Different industries approach workforce resilience in different ways, and both the technology and finance industries have seen the increased demand for workforce resilience in recent years. Organizations that embrace making connections and adopting a whole-business approach to workforce resilience are able to attract and retain talent, respond to change and create a happier, healthier and more productive workforce.

This episode of the “On Aon Insights” podcast series features host Sheena Singh, senior vice president in Aon’s healthcare industry vertical, and expert Ishita Goel, director in Aon’s Talent Solutions. Together, they explore the journey of workforce resilience in these two industries, including how to approach the transformative power of AI and the tactics that result in the greatest impact in workforce resilience plans.

• [1:15] How varying priorities affect an industry’s approach to workforce resilience
• [3:05] Key strategies the tech industry can take from the financial industry regarding workforce resilience
• [4:44] Examples of the importance of workforce resilience in the tech industry
• [5:40] Effective responses to the increasing demand to build a resilient workforce
• [7:06] A summary of workforce resilience in different industries

Additional Resources:

Aon Insights: Workforce Resilience

The One Brief: What Does a Resilient Workforce Look Like?

On Aon Insights Ep 1: Workforce Resilience as a Concept

On Aon Insights Ep 2: Reskilling and Upskilling Talent

On Aon Insights Ep 3: Training the Manager for the Future of Work

On Aon Insights Ep 4: Building Belonging in the Workforce

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Tweetables:

• “For all organizations, the ability to be able to consistently drive growth while taking into consideration the nuances of the changing external dynamics, the workforce compositions, how and where to attract talent from, the different kind of challenges that organizations are facing today, it's important for them to continue to focus on building workforce resilience. It's not one action to be taken at a particular point in time, but a series of actions.” — Ishita Goel
• The technology industry until last year was the employees’ choice as the place to work; however, they have started to understand the complexity of building workforce resilience.” — Ishita Goel
• “We’ll start to see upskilling and reskilling of the workforce becoming extremely important with talent pools shrinking and this war for talent so that organizations can continue to build on workforce resilience.” — Ishita Goel
• “Workforce resilience is not one thing or an end state. It's a journey to build resilience, agility and belonging to withstand change, navigate that change and build sufficient belonging for employees to repeat the process of change.” — Ishita Goel