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@ Workforce trends
As the way we work continues to evolve, ľӰԺ teams are uncovering what it takes to lead a successful transformation and developing new work operating systems. They are identifying how to overcome challenges to DE&I strategies, unlock workforce energy, advance women in the workplace and meet the expectations of Gen Z talent. Find insights and the ongoing podcast interview series "The New Shape of Work" below:
Leading Transformation

Oliver Wyman surveyed more than 240 C-suite executives from leading companies across industries in the Americas with the goal of answering what differentiates successful transformations from the rest.

Leading Transformation

Oliver Wyman surveyed more than 240 C-suite executives from leading companies across industries in the Americas with the goal of answering what differentiates successful transformations from the rest.

Future of Work

Learn how organizations are seizing the opportunity to redesign work, working and the workplace. To navigate the rapidly evolving world of work, leaders require a “new work operating system” that unhooks workers and workforce capabilities from traditional job boundaries.

Future of Work

Learn how organizations are seizing the opportunity to redesign work, working and the workplace. To navigate the rapidly evolving world of work, leaders require a “new work operating system” that unhooks workers and workforce capabilities from traditional job boundaries.

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Considering the role of a diverse workforce in driving organizational success, business leaders should find ways to address persisting gaps and challenges and take sustainable action to improve DE&I.

Organizations face the difficult task of paving the way to a future of work where employees can thrive and also deliver on business needs. The key will be designing an employee experience that reflects the company’s brand.

We studied three populations of women to see how their participation in the future of work might look and considered what we need to do to fully unlock their participation and help them realize their potential.

Gen Z isn't afraid to job hop in unfavorable job markets, and employers need to be mindful of their preference for flexible and remote working. Organizations also should emphasize well-being and cultivate passion.

Focusing the discussion on work-life balance and the need for talent to own their own reskilling journeys misses the broader transformation that needs to occur.
Ravin Jesuthasan, Global Transformation Services Leader, Mercer

:Join Mercer experts and industry leaders as they discuss transitioning to a more agile workforce for the future.

@ Wildfire risk
The devastating wildfire on the Hawaiian Island of Maui and the continuing Canadian wildfires - with their smoke drifting widely across North America - have raised new questions about how prepared we are as nations, as businesses and as individuals to face not only the threat of fire damage but also the effects of poor air quality. Here is some recent guidance from climate experts across our global enterprise on how to manage wildfire risk and climate risks more broadly:
Maui Wildfire

Guy Carpenter'sCAT Resource Center team provides live event coverage of the wind-driven wildfire that destroyed structures in Lahaina on the Hawaiian Island of Maui.

Maui Wildfire

Guy Carpenter'sCAT Resource Center team provides live event coverage of the wind-driven wildfire that destroyed structures in Lahaina on the Hawaiian Island of Maui.

Worker Health

Employers with operations or workers in areas that have been or may be affected by wildfires have critical work to do to safeguard their employees and their businesses right now.

Worker Health

Employers with operations or workers in areas that have been or may be affected by wildfires have critical work to do to safeguard their employees and their businesses right now.

Insuring Against Wildfire Risks

While direct fire damage remains an issue of immediate concern, yet another peril looms on the horizon: that of increased direct and indirect losses due to wildfire smoke.

Insuring Against Wildfire Risks

While direct fire damage remains an issue of immediate concern, yet another peril looms on the horizon: that of increased direct and indirect losses due to wildfire smoke.

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HR and risk managers need to develop a deeper understanding of the newest threats to employee health, such as extreme temperatures and poor air quality.

Climate change effects on global health will arrive gradually, then suddenly. The healthcare industry may not respond in time.

The CAT Resource Center breaks down the conditions that set up these Boulder communities for a winter wildfire disaster.

How companies can convert climate challenges into opportunities with commercially smart transitions to net zero.

Calls for companies to provide climate-related financial disclosure are growing. Companies that view disclosure as a mere tick-the-box exercise are arguably missing an opportunity to really study and reimagine their climate risk management in terms of business opportunity as well as risk.
Dr. Bev Adams, Head of Climate Advisory Practice, Marsh

@ Artificial intelligence
In just a matter of weeks, an obscure tool called ChatGPT ripped a hole in time sending us into the future. Based on user prompts, generative AI systems like ChatGPT use algorithms to recognize underlying patterns from input parameters and existing material in order to generate new content. Companies now must work out how to use generative AI and other tools in ways that maximize business impact, without succumbing to potential pitfalls. Here's how some of our experts are thinking about this rapidly evolving innovation:
Meet LenAI — A New Generative AI Tool

While many companies have shied away from fully engaging with generative AI, ľӰԺ has embraced its potential.

Meet LenAI — A New Generative AI Tool

While many companies have shied away from fully engaging with generative AI, ľӰԺ has embraced its potential.

Changing How We Work, Learn and Create

Mercer addresses how greater efficiency, productivity and customer satisfaction may result from learning how to apply generative AI in the workplace.

Changing How We Work, Learn and Create

Mercer addresses how greater efficiency, productivity and customer satisfaction may result from learning how to apply generative AI in the workplace.

AI, Data and Advanced Analytics

Oliver Wyman addresses the impact of generative AI on the Insurance industry, managing AI bias, ways to create a data-driven culture in the workplace and much more.

AI, Data and Advanced Analytics

Oliver Wyman addresses the impact of generative AI on the Insurance industry, managing AI bias, ways to create a data-driven culture in the workplace and much more.

AI will have the biggest or the largest impact on HR ever, from a technology standpoint. AI and generative AI will change HR, more than any technology innovation ever has.
Jason Averbook, Global Leader, Digital HR Strategy, Mercer

Related Insights and Commentary

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Chief People Officer’s Quick Guide to Generative AI

Companies now must work out how to use generative AI in ways that maximize business impact, without succumbing to potential pitfalls.

Report

The Generative AI Tipping Point

We explore the industry outlook, strategies for gaining market share, and the impact of generative AI on wealth and asset management.

Report

ChatGPT and the Compliance Function

ChatGPT may not be ready for use in compliance functions where security and reliability are essential, but it may be a solution in the near future.

Article

Reinventing Insurance With Generative AI

Generative AI is ushering in new opportunities for insurers across the value chain.

Report

2023 Global Technology Industry Risk Study

Understand how the reset in the technology industry with global economic challenges is shifting perspectives on risk management.

Article

Here's How Companies Should Navigate Generative AI in the World of Work

The true strength of generative AI lies in augmenting — rather than replacing — the work of employees.

Article

Farrah Pepper is Redefining the ABCs of Legal Technology

The future is bright with use cases and innovations under the umbrella of AI, and her innovative team is ready to bring it to fruition.

Report

Keeping Up With Generative AI

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) has arrived in force and has the potential to transform many ways insurers do business.

Article

AI’s Bias May Be Easier To Fix Than Humanity’s, Here’s Why

AI’s algorithms are based on design choices made by humans.

@ The banking industry
Recent challenges faced by the banking industry have raised concerns throughout the financial system and many aspects of the economy. Find analyses from across our global business teams below:
Key Insurance Considerations

While insurance solutions cannot eliminate every risk, they can serve as an important tool for at-risk or failed banks, their client companies and firms providing professional auditing, legal or other services to those banks.

Key Insurance Considerations

While insurance solutions cannot eliminate every risk, they can serve as an important tool for at-risk or failed banks, their client companies and firms providing professional auditing, legal or other services to those banks.

In a special-edition podcast, Jo Holden, Mercer’s Global Head of Investment Research and Advisory, is joined by David Scopelliti, Global Head of Private Debt, and Rupert Watson, Head of Asset Allocation, to discuss the impact of SVB’s failure on private and public financial markets and whether we believe the turmoil in the banking sector can be contained. Crucially, they explore the vital role of good governance in building resilient investment strategies able to weather an unpredictable future.

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The collapse of three banks with close connections to tech and crypto asset firms sent tremors through the industry. US federal regulators intervened and helped steady markets somewhat but revived debate about risk of moral hazard.

While some financial institutions have taken steps to more actively monitor and manage their exposure, significant room for improvement remains to embed geopolitical risk in a structured manner into business decisions.

The global banking crisis continued to affect crypto assets and prompted fresh enforcement actions and warnings from US regulators and policymakers while established financial institutions continued to develop digital assets businesses.

Huw Van Steenis, Vice-Chair with Oliver Wyman, joined Bloomberg Markets to share his insight on the Silicon Valley Bank collapse and the impact it will have on the broader industry.

@ Rethinking flood
Flood disasters have exposed the severe inadequacies of risk management practices in both high- and low-income countries, highlighting how current approaches to resilience are unable to cope with today’s levels of risk, let alone keep pace with a rapidly escalating threat. Find the latest research from our global experts on how stakeholders can balance their responses to current crises with a longer-term focus on building resilience:
Flood Risk Index

The open-sourceľӰԺ Flood Risk Indexleverages research from international organizations and academic institutions to provide a global overview of flood risk and its potential implications on human and economic systems under different climate change scenarios.

Flood Risk Index

The open-sourceľӰԺ Flood Risk Indexleverages research from international organizations and academic institutions to provide a global overview of flood risk and its potential implications on human and economic systems under different climate change scenarios.

Staying Above Water

This reportillustrates how the transformation of flood risk management can play out along three ways forward: living with floods, building strategic protection, and preparing for relocation.

Staying Above Water

This reportillustrates how the transformation of flood risk management can play out along three ways forward: living with floods, building strategic protection, and preparing for relocation.

The Flood Protection Gap

This perspective is based on the testimony to the US House of Representatives Financial Services Committee Subcommittee on Housing and Insurance, given by Julian Enoizi, Head of Public Sector at Guy Carpenter.

The Flood Protection Gap

This perspective is based on the testimony to the US House of Representatives Financial Services Committee Subcommittee on Housing and Insurance, given by Julian Enoizi, Head of Public Sector at Guy Carpenter.

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While progress in developing climate transition plans has been impressive, the depth and detail are often less reassuring.

In this episode of Fo[RE]sight, we discuss facilitating risk transfer through resilience and how insurance professionals can address growing protection gaps.

As the sustainability agenda accelerates and proliferates, a key challenge for insurance execs will be choosing where to focus and what to prioritize.

@ The outlook for 2023
Incorporate our expert guides to navigating shifting business trends into your planning for the new year and beyond:

Companies will need to make tradeoffs as they face ongoing challenges, including climate change and China’s shifting COVID policies. But this is also a time to experiment, to try new strategies and to question long-held assumptions.

So, where are we now as we reach the end of 2022? Economies have overheated and have begun slowing down, with some potentially in recession already. Are we there yet? Will monetary tightening lead to a deep recession? We believe the answers lie in inflation dynamics.

As the sustainability agenda accelerates and proliferates, a key challenge for insurance execs will be choosing where to focus and what to prioritize. To help, here is our pick of 10 sustainability issues that should be at the top of every executive’s list in 2023.

This is a pivotal moment for re-energizing resilience efforts at the national level. In order to secure long term well-being and prosperity, a whole-of-society response is needed in mitigating critical risks and being prepared for crises.
Ruth Lux, Head of Public Sector, UK, Europe, Middle East and Africa, Guy Carpenter

@ The metaverse
The metaverse has the potential to further transform just about every aspect of human life, just as radio did a century ago, television 50 years ago and the rise of the internet 25 years ago, perhaps even more so. Why?
Here we are now as a society at this next jumping off point into the metaverse where this is going to transform our lives in ways that are hard to predict. If I had a crystal ball, I would be able to tell you, but it's going to be a different world.
Ben Hoster, Director of Transformative Technologies , ľӰԺ

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While there is some hype surrounding digital assets, decentralized finance and Web3, there's also substance with the potential to fundamentally transform parts of our modern financial system. It’s time for insurers to pay attention.

Web3 is only one vision for the metaverse. Policymakers and executives need to understand the economics behind Web3 concepts like NFT trading and metaverse marketplaces in order to evaluate that vision.

The combination of the metaverse and a decentralized web3 has the potential to radically transform operating models and the labour market. Leadership will rely on soft power and empathy to align the interests of disparate stakeholders.

With NFTs, it is important to untangle the opportunities from the noise. There is a lot of confusion about what NFTs are, both among critics who lambast NFTs and among fans who cannot get enough of multi-million-dollar NFT art.

@ Well-being in the workplace
World Mental Health Day, recognized October 10, provides an opportunity for all stakeholders working on mental health issues to share their work and look at what more needs to be done to improve mental healthcare worldwide.

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LinkedIn Live: People Risk and Building Business Resilience

Employee Mental Health

BRINK spoke to Alison ByrneandDr. Ariel Almazan ofMercer Marsh Benefits about how mental health intersects with work and what better support for employees could look like.

Employee Mental Health

BRINK spoke to Alison ByrneandDr. Ariel Almazan ofMercer Marsh Benefits about how mental health intersects with work and what better support for employees could look like.

Reflections from Sam Dimond, Global Director on Oliver Wyman's Knowledge Services team:

I hesitated to share this personal story on World Mental Health Day. However, I truly believe that it is important for senior leaders to share our mental health experiences if we are to break the stigma attached. So I’m writing today’s post in the hope that others won’t feel they suffer alone, or that they are somehow strange or different.

I have felt anxious for as long as I can remember. Sometimes that meant that I believed I was bad at everything or not likeable. This didn’t start overnight, but think it got much worse after becoming a father.

Over the next few years there was too often an inner voice that grew louder and louder, making everything seem worse than it really was. In truth, I was excelling in many areas of my life and work and really fortunate, but there was a real danger that that voice was going to ruin everything and stop me seeing things as they really were.

Things came to a head when I got into a vicious spiral of falling asleep every night exhausted but then waking up at 3am, worrying about the days ahead and not being able to getback to sleep.

It is just a really difficult moment for healthcare all over the world. Many hospitals are doing their best to ensure that healthcare workers have good support through mental health interventions. However, this is something that is a bit more existential than we're used to dealing with.
Gisele Norris, Managing Director, US National Healthcare Practice, Marsh

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Mary Kay Gilhooly, the Director of Well-being at Adobe, joined Mercer experts to discuss how employer plan sponsors are improving access to mental healthcare.

The increased need for behavioral healthcare is putting pressure on a system that is ill-prepared to deal with an influx of patients.

A look at which employee segments are most at risk now, how to support staff during crises and preparedness for well-being in the long term.

Hear from a panel of workers’ compensation specialists on how to implement strategies for promoting employee health, wellness and resiliency.

@ The outlook for aviation

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Pilots, Pivots and Potential - The State of Aviation

Airline Economic Analysis

This year's report from Oliver Wyman outlines major macro-economic trends, the impact of the geo-political situation with the war in Ukraine and carrier recovery efforts in light of labor tightness and fuel cost escalation.

Airline Economic Analysis

This year's report from Oliver Wyman outlines major macro-economic trends, the impact of the geo-political situation with the war in Ukraine and carrier recovery efforts in light of labor tightness and fuel cost escalation.

In early 2021, Oliver Wyman forecast an imminent pilot shortage on the horizon. It seemed an incredible prediction at the time given the state of aviation, which had been almost grounded the year before by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Yet, with the rebound in air travel demand in 2021 and 2022,the lack of pilots quickly became apparent, starting in North America where the shortage is being most acutely felt. Our latest model, in part based on the Global Fleet & MRO Forecast 2022-2032,expects the region to face a shortfall of 8,000 pilots in 2022, about 11% of the total. That gap will grow to more than 29,000 by the end of the decade.

Absent a downturn in future demand and industry efforts to bolster the supply of pilots, travelers should anticipate continued near-term cancellations and delays until airlines are better able to accommodate traffic with scaled-back flight schedules. These would more accurately reflect the size of the pilot workforce and are likely to involve further reductions in service to smaller markets.

Rising inflation is compounding the impact of the pandemic across the aviation industry. Usually inflationary pressures dampen leisure travel, but the leisure-led recovery continues to be strong as people prioritize experiences and take advantage of the summer travel season. The boom has come with some difficult-to-solve complications that are preventing airlines from fully capitalizing on the comeback.

For carriers,escalating costs are putting additional pressures on the industry just as it is rebounding back. Additionally, workforce availability woes abound and have airlines pulling capacity out of the market so they can more reliably operate their schedules. Unfortunately, traveler experiences have been negatively impacted for many, and these labor shortages extend well beyond just the airline and into the airport, hospitality, and restaurant industries.

Volume four of The Inflation Shift examines how inflation is shaping the three big cost categories for the aviation industry – labor, fuel, and maintenance - and what consumers can expect from airlines in the coming months.

As access to space becomes more affordable, private investment in space activity is increasing. But new opportunities could be accompanied by an emerging set of risks.
Adam Sturmer, Global Head of Sales, Marsh Specialty Space Projects


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The possible options and pathways for the aviation industry to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.

From gridlocked airports to ever extending hospital waiting lists, getting supply and demand right has never been more critical to business resilience.

An industry-level look at how the conflict is introducing new risks to business operations and impacting insurance as a result.

We've already witnessed the incursion of pollution into the Earth’s oceans. Now is the time to take steps so that space remains sustainable.

@ Disaster resilience

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Bouncing Back From Shocks

Flood Risk Index

Our updated webtool leverages research from international organizations and academic institutions to provide a global overview of flood risk and its potential implications on human and economic systems under different climate change scenarios.

Flood Risk Index

Our updated webtool leverages research from international organizations and academic institutions to provide a global overview of flood risk and its potential implications on human and economic systems under different climate change scenarios.

Natural Catastrophes

The CAT Resource Center from Guy Carpenter provides live event, post event, seasonal outlooks and periodic thought leadership regarding natural catastrophes, including hurricanes, winterstorms, wildfires and earthquakes.

Natural Catastrophes

The CAT Resource Center from Guy Carpenter provides live event, post event, seasonal outlooks and periodic thought leadership regarding natural catastrophes, including hurricanes, winterstorms, wildfires and earthquakes.

With more disasters comes a greater burden on responders to help disaster survivors in their time of need. We need to prioritize resilience actions to improve survivor outcomes.
Daniel Kaniewski, former Deputy Administrator for Resilience at FEMA, now Managing Director of Public Sector at ľӰԺ
While climate has a role in certain regions and perils on loss outcomes, I think there's evidence to say that climate change is only one of many factors at play.
Jessica Turner , Managing Director, Catastrophe Advisory, Guy Carpenter

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How Healthcare Providers Can Meet the Climate Challenge

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Companies can deliver critical knowledge services more efficiently by embracing distributed computing’s modular approach to allocating resources.

What will it cost you to rebuild following a catastrophic loss? And is your existing property coverage still adequate?

More Frequent Wildfires Could Drive Up Insurance Costs

Parametric options that pay fast and help offset any sources of loss will increasingly offer more options to complement traditional insurance.

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Disaster Resilience Center of Excellence

Insights, expertise and capabilities to help public sector leaders prepare for, mitigate against, insure and recover from disasters.

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