One volume. Twelve months of research, analysis, and bold perspectives on the forces reshaping work.
About Workforce Architecture
Workforce Architecture is Challenge Factory’s flagship insight series.
What began as a digital magazine has evolved into an annual compendium: a curated collection of the year’s most influential articles and insights on workforce change, leadership, and the Future of Work. Each edition consolidates Challenge Factory thought leadership published throughout the year into one definitive resource for leaders.
The 2025 edition, Accelerated Futures, captures the speed and scale of change in today’s world of work—from artificial intelligence to global trade shifts to new approaches to leadership.
Inside the 2025 compendium
Accelerated Futures: AI, adaptive leadership, and the forces reshaping work
Highlights include:
- The Human Impact of AI – How technology is reshaping work and career reinvention
- Leadership and Market Forces – Exploring trade, tariffs, and reskilling pressures affecting industries
Every article is grounded in Challenge Factory’s 5 Drivers of Workforce Change framework, connecting technological, demographic, policy, and leadership shifts into a single, actionable view of the future.
“This year’s Workforce Architecture compendium arrives at a moment of rapid construction and renovation in the world of work. Artificial intelligence, global trade relationships, and workforce adaptation have become the structural forces shaping 2025 and beyond.
The common constraint we hear from leaders is lack of time. This compendium offers scaffolding to address that challenge: practical frameworks, trend analyses, and insights into how transformation can be woven into everyday structures rather than treated as a separate build.”
Lisa Taylor, Founder and CEO, Challenge Factory
Why leaders rely on Workforce Architecture
Designed for executives and people-focused leaders, Workforce Architecture delivers:
Clarity
See the real drivers of workforce change, not just surface level trends.
Practical strategies
Tools and frameworks you can apply immediately.
Impact
Insights that don’t just inform, they transform. Turning today’s disruptions into tomorrow’s opportunities for leaders and their teams.
The Future of Work from every angle
Career insights, workplace strategy, and labour market policy—brought together in one place for a micro-to-macro view leaders can’t find anywhere else.
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Looking ahead
Workforce Architecture is published each fall, with new articles released throughout the year. Each annual compendium serves as a blueprint in review—a curated, accessible guide that brings these insights together to give leaders the clarity they need to act on workforce change with confidence.
Past editions
Fall/Winter 2023
Spring/Summer 2023
Fall/Winter 2022
Spring/Summer 2022
