Aura Intelligence, the premier AI platform for Organizational Decision Intelligence and Bain & Company spinout, has officially published the results from its Workforce Industry Benchmarking Report, which brings forth a comprehensive analysis of workforce trends from January 1 to December 31, 2024.
According to certain reports, the stated report took into account more than 20 million company profiles, all for the purpose of providing an unprecedented view into how sentiment, hiring patterns, attrition, and diversity has evolved across key sectors, including finance, healthcare, technology, education, manufacturing, and retail, as organizations navigated another year of economic uncertainty, AI adoption, and shifting workplace expectations.
Talk about the published results on a slightly deeper level, we begin from the fact leadership was deemed to be the new hot metric to watch. We get to say so because sentiment towards senior leadership emerged as the most sensitive early indicator of broader organizational health. The same indicator was also found to be on a steep decline across sectors up against layoffs, compliance controversies, or sudden RTO mandates.
Next up, Aura gauged enhanced employee satisfaction after structured returns. This treads up a long distance to suggest that context and execution matter more than the mandate itself.
Another detail worth a mention is rooted in how hiring and attrition trends show deep industry disparities. For better understanding, healthcare and education reported continued attrition pressures, whereas on the other hand, finance and tech stabilized after major cuts in early 2023.
“This report isn’t based on surveys or speculation, it is based on how workforces actually behaved,” said Evan Sohn, CEO of Aura Intelligence. “We’re offering leadership teams real-time, evidence-based insights on what’s improving, what’s eroding, and where opportunity lies in 2025.”
Hold on, we still have a few bits left to unpack, considering we haven’t yet touched upon dwindling diversity and inclusion sentiment. You see, after a surge in 2020–2022, DEI sentiment across most sectors pretty much flattened in 2024, with some industries showing signs of fatigue or disillusionment, especially among younger professionals.
We also haven’t touched upon the way burnout problem is now quickly turning into disconnection. This translates to how work-life balance and career opportunity scores went down in sectors with aggressive productivity mandates or inconsistent hybrid models, pointing to what Aura calls a growing silent disengagement.
Founded in 2020, Aura Intelligence’s rise up ranks stems from its industry-leading Organizational Decision Intelligence (ODI), which is designed to help management consulting firms, private equity firms, hedge funds, and enterprise leaders make smarter, faster, and more confident workforce decisions. The stated platform, along with many other innovations, allow customers to transform fragmented external workforce data, inclusive of hiring trends, skills evolution, employee sentiment, productivity, and more, into real-time insights that can inform investment analysis, operational strategy, and talent optimization.
The scale of Aura’s operation can also be understood once you consider it aggregates and cleanses data from over 1 billion employee profiles and 20 million companies.
