Research and Reports

The World Economic Forum's 2025 Future of Jobs Report, provides key insights not only into the future of professions but also into the skills that will be most in demand in the business world. The report highlights that 63% of employers identify the skills gap as the biggest barrier to business transformation.

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According to the report, creative thinking—complementing technological skills—and two socio-emotional traits—resilience, flexibility, and agility, along with curiosity and lifelong learning—are gaining increasing importance. Additionally, leadership and social influence, talent management, analytical thinking, and environmental management rank among the top 10 emerging skills.

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The report also predicts that the following skills will not only remain critical today but will become even more essential in the future:

• AI and big data utilization

• Analytical and creative thinking

• Resilience, flexibility, and agility

• Technological literacy

 

Furthermore, human-centered skills such as systems thinking, motivation, and self-awareness are becoming even more valuable in the face of rapid technological advancements.

 

For more details, you can access the full report via the link below:
WEF - The Future of Jobs Report 2025

 

The research titled Mindfully and confidently digital: A mixed methods study on personal resources to mitigate the dark side of digital working, examines how mindfulness and digital workplace confidence influence employee well-being in a digital work environment. The study analyzed data from surveys conducted with 142 employees and in-depth interviews with 14 employees to gain a comprehensive understanding.

 

The findings reveal that mindfulness helps employees better protect themselves from the negative effects of digital work environments, such as stress, overload, anxiety, fear of missing out, and digital addiction. Individuals with higher levels of mindfulness are more effective in managing these challenges. Furthermore, employees with greater confidence in using digital tools experience less anxiety related to digital work environments.

 

For more details, you can access the full study here.

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The research titled Mindfulness practice improves managers’ job demands-resources, psychological detachment, work-nonwork boundary control, and work-life balance – a randomized controlled trial, examines how mindfulness and digital workplace trust affect employee well-being in the digital workplace.The research analyzes survey data from 142 employees and in-depth interviews with 14 employees to gain deeper insights.

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The findings reveal that mindfulness helps employees better protect themselves from the negative effects of digital work environments, such as stress, overload, anxiety, fear of missing out, and digital addiction. Individuals with higher levels of mindfulness are more effective in managing these challenges. Additionally, employees with greater confidence in using digital tools experience less anxiety related to digital work environments.

 

For more details, you can access the full study here.

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The research titled How does mindfulness reduce stress at work? A two-study examination using a stress appraisal perspective, based on the Transactional Stress Model, explores how mindfulness helps employees reappraise their work tasks and whether it effectively reduces stress. The study analyzes whether mindfulness is associated with workplace stress reduction by promoting a more positive job task evaluation—specifically by decreasing threat appraisal and increasing challenge appraisal.

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The research includes two studies:

• Study 1 – A two-wave longitudinal study

• Study 2 – An experience sampling study

 

Both studies indicate that mindfulness is linked to reduced stress through lower threat appraisal of work tasks. The findings suggest that mindfulness helps employees perceive their job tasks as less threatening, thereby reducing workplace stress.

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For more details, click here to access the full article.

 

The research titled Mindfulness training in the workplace: exploring its scope and outcomes, explores the scope of mindfulness as a workplace intervention and aims to determine the effects of mindfulness-based training programs at the individual, job/work, group/team, and organizational levels. The research was conducted through a review of 28 empirical studies.

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The study’s findings indicated that mindfulness-based training is an effective intervention for improving employees’ mental health, well-being, and performance, identifying a total of 51 significant outcomes categorized across individual (23), work/job (17), group/team (7), and organizational (4) levels.

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For more details, click here to access the full article.

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