Optimize your job architecture for impact 

Optimize your job architecture for impact

This infographic explores what companies that unlock value with job architecture do differently.

Today, job architectures are table stakes

97%

of organizations have a job architecture (76%) or are developing one (21%)

…Yet, they rarely satisfy business needs

55%

feel their job architecture doesn’t meet the needs of the business and deliver desired outcomes

Transformation in job architecture is underway

46%

of those who have a job architecture are making changes in the next 12 months

What do companies that unlock value with their job architecture do differently?

  • Activate

    • 4x more likely to enable career mobility with skills
    • 2x more likely to use career paths with their JA

  • Evolve

    • 4x more likely to have a defined governance model
    • 2x more likely to formally review at least annually

  • Unify

    • 4x less likely to vary the design by business unit
    • 2x more likely to universally define career levels

  • Thrive

    Companies who have a JA that meet their business needs, on average provide an additional 5%+ returns per year to shareholders1.

Source: US Mercer QuickPulse™ survey: Job architecture edition

1. Based analysis of public companies, controlling for industries and measured over the past 3 years, as of 6/1/2021 through 6/1/2024. Companies who unlock value with job architecture are defined as companies who agree their architectures fully meet the needs of the business

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