Personal fulfillment: The new key metric underpinning the workplace contract

This article is part of: World Economic Forum Annual Meeting

• A new survey of 300,000 people worldwide reveals personal fulfillment is now the second workplace priority.
• With a shortfall in targeted skills training, only 44% of employees feel as if they are thriving at work, down from 66% in 2024.
• Once the least fulfilled cohort, Generation Z has driven satisfaction gains of 21 to 31 percentage points across every measure since 2021, signaling how quickly a sense of belonging can develop.