Glassdoor 2024 Workplace Trends

5 months ago · < 1 minute read

Glassdoor’s analysts have looked carefully at the economic and political changes throughout 2023 and put together eight trends they predict for this year. You can read more about individual trends on their website here.

• Gen Z will overtake the Baby Boomers in the full-time workforce. That means employers will need to focus more on Zoomer priorities like transparency and diversity. 
• While they predict that companies will continue to increase wages and salaries, Glassdoor thinks earners will see fewer and fewer additional benefits (stock options, insurance, 401Ks, and other non-cash benefits).
• The competition for skilled workers that boomed right after the pandemic reversed course in 2023 and it’s going to keep cooling off. Nowhere is that more visible than the sudden decline in equity compensation. 
• Employee morale was pretty low in 2023 from all of the lay-offs and Glassdoor sees it only worsening in 2024.
• Middle managers will continue to take the brunt of problems both above and below.
• Companies will continue to use enticements and threats to force employees to return to the office/reduce work from home.
• Employees will gravitate towards smaller companies with more flexible work policies, like allowing them to continue working from home.
• All of the AI chatbots will increase productivity for some employees, but likely frustrate customers.