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The Rise of the Superworker

The Rise of the Superworker HR and Leadership Predictions and Imperatives for 2025 from The Josh Bersin CompanyEvery January, The Josh Bersin Company shares the trends, challenges, and changes that talent and business leaders will face in the year ahead. For 2025, Josh Bersin, global analyst & CEO, has a single prediction: we will see the rise of the Superworker.  

Superworker: An employee empowered and supported by AI. In a world where AI agents support every employee, a Superworker can step up their value, productivity, and output by learning to optimize their use of AI systems.

The Rise of the Superworker: HR and Leadership Predictions and Imperatives for 2025 research showcases the critical need to use AI strategically across your organization to empower every person to bring more scale, creativity, productivity, customer-centricity, and value to their work. Download the complimentary infographic to learn more about the Superworker concept and the imperative actions you can take to enable this critical shift:  


To be clear, this is not about using AI to eliminate jobs or cut costs. The Superworker ideal is an incredible breakthrough in how to apply the complexities of AI to outperform other organizations with new business processes, customer experiences, and internal operations while facilitating broad productivity enhancements and driving value. Scaling your AI-powered initiatives in the ways our cutting-edge research outlines enables you to accomplish five essential imperatives this year:  

  1. Redesign Work, Jobs, and Organizational Models 
  2. Create a Dynamic Talent Model to Drive Talent Density 
  3. Refine Leadership, Culture, and Employee Brand 
  4. Accelerate the Shift to Systemic HR® 
  5. Rethink the HR Tech Stack with a New Product and Ops Roadmap 

Each of these imperatives is part of the driving force of the human and economic potential of AI. The AI revolution is an opportunity to reskill your workforce, create talent with new roles, and  take the lead as talent consultants to navigate this huge transformation. Most importantly, this mindset shift does not require leaders and practitioners to abandon people-centric HR best practices. In fact, it’s a critical moment for talent leaders to lean in and guide the transformation organizations will require to excel during this technology revolution. 

Importantly, every organization, team, and employee can benefit from embracing the Superworker mentality, regardless of the maturity or embeddedness of AI assistants in your company.

Related Rise of the Superworker Resources & Engagement Opportunities: 

  • Webinar – Join Josh Bersin on Tuesday, January 28 at 8am PT | 11am ET for a live discussion about the Superworker concept and critical actions leaders & practitioners can take to amplify their productivity, creativity, and contributions in 2025
  • Article – Read more about how to deliver on the promise of AI.
  • Podcast – Listen in as Josh discusses the Rise of the Superworker.
  • Galileo™ – Become an AI-enabled Superworker with your personalized assistant for everything HR
  • Bersin Academy – Build new skills alongside the world’s largest Community for HR on critical topics through Resources and Courses, including the newest program Building a Skills Strategy that Works.
  • Irresistible 2025 – Join 450 HR leaders May 19-21, 2025, in Los Angeles at USC’s campus for three days of collaborative ideation, networking, and learning, including an educational track dedicated to the Superworker.

Empowering Superworkers doesn’t just happen. It requires internal transformation. Discover the approaches and strategies you can use to encourage the Rise of the Superworker in your organization through related research: 

  • The Definitive Guide to Human Resources: Systemic HR® – What makes the best companies effective in their HR functions? They see the workplace as a system, not a set of disconnected parts. Explore the acclaimed Systemic HR research to assess your company’s current state, identify what’s most important, and create a roadmap to getting started with this operating system. 
  • The Definitive Guide to Building a Dynamic Organization – Dynamic Organizations strategically align people and skills to opportunities and improve productivity and business competitiveness while taking an agile rather than episodic approach to change.
  • The Definitive Guide to Leadership Development: Irresistible Leadership – Great leadership embodies culture, values, and ownership, and the most advanced leaders plan for change rather than waiting to react to it. Prepare your organization for the rise of the Superworker with a new approach to leadership and leadership development.
  • 100 Proven Use Cases for Galileo™ – Start your personalized journey to becoming a Superworker with real-world examples of using Galileo to increase productivity, efficiency, and creativity in your day-to-day work as an HR professional or people leader.