The 2026 Workplace Trends Report highlights how companies, their leaders and employees are more selective in their expectations.
Morgan McKinley has published the results of the new global 2026 Workplace Trends report, which explores employee sentiment in comparison to evolving workplace expectations.
To gather the data Morgan McKinley collected information from 2,799 globally dispersed respondents, representing a diverse cross-section of the workforce, as well as 214 employers and decision makers. What was discovered is that there is somewhat of a disconnect between employee goals and the expectations of the employer.
The report found that globally, workers are preparing to move jobs as their pay stalls and concerns over job security, restructuring and automation, grow. Almost 50pc of employees who contributed to the research said that they have serious plans to look for a new job in the next six months, despite 63pc of employers saying that they have no planned headcount reductions for 2026.
More than one-third of participating employees are of the opinion that their role has the potential to be affected by changes in the workplace and as many as 85pc of people agreed that, if their job was put at risk, they would start applying for new roles. Nearly 70pc revealed that they had not received a salary increase in the past six months.
