Your organization is tracking skills, adopting skills-based pay, and monitoring obsolescence — but are those efforts actually moving the needle? Most organizations are doing all the right things and still defaulting to expensive external hires for roles they should be filling internally.
Our 2026 research, drawing on insights from 272 HR professionals across North America and Europe, reveals why most skills investments produce activity without outcomes — and what separates the organizations closing the gap from the ones stuck in motion.
