Statistics
Figures on hiring, learning, performance, and engagement, with a link to the study that measured each one and the year in plain sight. If a figure cannot be checked, it is not on this page.
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What changes is not how many people work, but what they know how to do. Four in ten skills a role asks for today will not be the same in 2030.
39%
of the key skills the market asks for will change before 2030.
World Economic Forum, Future of Jobs Report 2025 · 2025 ↗63%
of employers name the skills gap as their main barrier.
World Economic Forum, Future of Jobs Report 2025 · 2025 ↗170 M
new jobs and 92 million displaced by 2030. The net is positive, but not for the same person.
World Economic Forum, Future of Jobs Report 2025 · 2025 ↗22%
of existing jobs are disrupted between now and 2030, counting those created and those displaced.
World Economic Forum, Future of Jobs Report 2025 · 2025 ↗The figure that surprises most is not how many people are disengaged, but who disengaged first: the managers.
20%
of workers worldwide are engaged at work, the lowest level since 2020.
Gallup, State of the Global Workplace · 2025 ↗27% → 22%
is how far manager engagement fell in a single year. That drop is what pulls the rest down.
Gallup, State of the Global Workplace · 2025 ↗10 billones
of dollars a year is what the world economy loses in productivity that never happens.
Gallup, State of the Global Workplace · 2025 ↗14%
of employees strongly agree the performance reviews they get inspire them to improve.
Gallup, More Harm Than Good: The Truth About Performance Reviews · 2019 ↗Seven out of a hundred openings are filled from inside. The other ninety-three go to market looking for what may already have been in the building.
7%
of nonexecutive positions were filled internally.
SHRM, Recruiting Benchmarking Report 2025 · 2025 ↗75%
are still at the company two years later if they made an internal move. Without one, 56%.
LinkedIn, Internal Mobility · 2024 ↗35%
of organizations use an internal talent marketplace, up from 25% the year before.
SHRM, Recruiting Benchmarking Report 2025 · 2025 ↗56%
of recruiting executives name talent shortages as their problem.
SHRM, Recruiting Benchmarking Report 2025 · 2025 ↗mes y medio
is the median from opening a requisition to an accepted offer, and it makes no difference whether the role is executive or not.
SHRM, Recruiting Benchmarking Report 2025 · 2025 ↗This is the stretch of the cycle with the most folklore and the least verifiable data. These two hold up; many of the ones going around do not.
12%
of employees strongly agree their company does a great job onboarding.
Gallup, Why the Onboarding Experience Is Key for Retention · 2018 ↗People want to learn and they say so. What almost never happens is someone sitting down with them to decide what.
15%
say their manager helped them build a career plan in the past six months. Five points below the year before.
LinkedIn, Workplace Learning Report 2025 · 2025 ↗84%
of employees agree that learning adds purpose to their work.
LinkedIn, Workplace Learning Report 2025 · 2025 ↗49%
of learning leaders say their executives worry employees lack the skills to execute the business strategy.
LinkedIn, Workplace Learning Report 2025 · 2025 ↗36%
of organizations have a career development program worth the name. The rest are getting started or have nothing.
LinkedIn, Workplace Learning Report 2025 · 2025 ↗Adoption nearly doubled in a year. What did not move at the same pace is how many companies get something measurable out of it.
27%
use it in talent acquisition, more than in any other HR function.
SHRM, Talent Trends 2025 · 2025 ↗88%
of companies already use AI in at least one function. Only 6% qualify as high performers using it.
McKinsey, The State of AI · 2025 ↗The region where people are more engaged than the global average and where, at the same time, more than half work without a formal contract. Both are true at once.
30%
engagement in Latin America and the Caribbean, against a 20% global average. Only the United States and Canada are higher, at 31%.
Gallup, State of the Global Workplace · 2025 ↗55,4%
informal employment in Mexico. More than half of those working do so with no social security.
INEGI, Encuesta Nacional de Ocupación y Empleo · 2025 ↗26,5 M
people hold formal employment in Mexico: 44.6% of the employed population.
STPS, con datos de la ENOE del INEGI · 2025 ↗55,7%
informal employment in Colombia. In the thirteen largest cities it drops to 42.2%.
DANE, Gran Encuesta Integrada de Hogares · 2025 ↗Each one links to the study that measured it. None comes from an aggregator or from an article citing another article: if the original source cannot be opened, the figure does not go on this page.
Because the original study is from that year and nobody has measured it again. We would rather show the real year than repeat an old figure as if it were current, which is what almost everyone does.
Yes, and you are better off citing the original source than this page: the link sits next to every figure. Linking to us helps, but what gives you authority is the study.
Every time a new edition of one of these studies comes out. If a source stops being published, the figure comes off the page instead of being left without a link.
Because almost no collection of HR statistics has one, and talent decisions in Mexico and Colombia look nothing like those in the United States when more than half of employment is informal.
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