Name
The AI “Big Shift” in Jobs and Compensation: What’s Coming and How to Navigate It
Date
Monday, May 19, 2025
Time
2:30 PM - 3:15 PM
Track
Careers
Session Format
Big Idea
Target Attendee Experience Level
Intermediate: Hands-on and Practical Application
Description

Are you ready for the incredibly swift and dramatic transformations AI and other key emerging technologies are bringing to your job? Welcome to The Big Shift—seismic changes sweeping through the workplace that are radically reshaping jobs, careers, and workplace management at unprecedented speed.

In this session, tech labor analyst and compensation expert David Foote will reveal the five “shifts” that will disrupt nearly everything we know about hiring, paying, and rewarding workers over the next decade. Drawing from his firm’s deep-dive research across 4,500 employers (38 industries) and other sources, David will give you a sneak peek into the Total Rewards and compensation revolution coming your way---impacting not just current roles but creating entirely new jobs that didn’t exist before AI and other fast-moving new transformational technologies. Join us for an eye-opening session to understand what’s next and how to prepare for a future of work that is probably not what you think. Get ready to navigate the Big Shift!

Key Takeaways

  • Understand the five key “Big Shift” changes reshaping enterprise workforce management,  compensation, and Total Rewards practices.
  • Explore how a variety of high momentum technologies, generational/social factors, and rising demand for critical soft skills are dramatically altering the FoW landscape
  • Identify new job and career opportunities for HR professionals in the Big Shift and how to navigate them to adapt and thrive.