Workforce Reckoning: How the State of Career Optimism is Shaping a New Mandate for Employers

In a time of record-low institutional trust, growing workplace grievances, and rapid AI-powered transformation, the American workforce largely feels uncertain about their futures, alienated, and overwhelmed. Employers who fail to meet workers’ evolving needs risk losing the very workforce driving their success. In this exclusive panel discussion, leaders from the University of Phoenix Career Institute, LinkedIn News, Jobs for the Future, and Learn Capital will unpack key findings of the fifth-annual Career Optimism Index— what it suggests for the next five years of work and the business value in empowering the workforce versus simply employing it. Join us for groundbreaking insights based on data from the past five years of work—and complimentary refreshments.