Is Your Workforce Quietly Job-Searching?
Nearly 1 in 2 Professional Services employees is actively job-seeking right now and 3 in 4 of them plan to be gone within 12 months.
Discover the five workforce imperatives Professional Services leaders must act on in 2026 to convert quiet dissatisfaction into lasting commitment.
"Our culture is what binds us together and is our way of rising. Employee empowerment and inclusion coupled with transparency has played a key role in helping us nurture our culture of employee centricity."
Nora Bhatia, Chief – HR & Corporate Admin, Mahindra Intertrade Limited
What is Great Place To Work Certification?
- The Great Place To Work Certification acknowledges organizations that excel in providing a positive work environment for their employees.
- Certification is a two-step process that includes surveying your employees and completing a short questionnaire about your workforce.
- With employee feedback and external evaluation being the basis of the Certification, job seekers can now identify companies with good company culture.
- Certification gives employers a recruiting advantage since now they have a globally recognized and research-backed verification of having a great workplace culture.
How to earn Certification?
01
Survey your employees
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Promote and celebrate your certification
- A custom, royalty-free Certification badge to use on all your recruiting campaigns and assets
- Digital toolkit full of social media images, press materials, shareable content and more
- Your interactive Certified company profile on greatplacetowork.com
These three pressures are converging on India's Professional Services sector and no leader can afford to ignore them.
High attrition intent.
A generational shift rewriting the rules of retention.
AI adoption moving faster than employee confidence.
Slow decisions. Too many approvals. Misaligned teams. Information bottlenecks. Leadership overload.
The People Reality in Professional Services, 2026
~1 in 2
Employees actively job-seeking
3 in 4
Leavers will exit within 12 months
3 pts
Drop in discretionary effort since 2025
34%
Of the workforce is now Gen Z
1.7x
More likely to stay long-term when leaders practice thanking
21%
Employees briefed on AI risk, despite 59% of firms using AI meaningfully
Introducing the T.R.U.S.T. Framework
Five workforce imperatives that convert intent into impact:
- T — Technology Confidence: Bridging AI adoption with the employee trust needed to make it work.
- R — Retention Through Leadership Behaviour: Building the leadership behaviours that make people want to stay.
- U — Understanding the New Workforce: Addressing Gen Z and managers’ eagerness to switch jobs.
- S — Sustainable Performance: Moving away from burnout spikes toward durable, structural wellbeing.
- T — Transparency & Fairness: Fixing the systems that govern rewards, decisions, and opportunity.
What's Inside the Report
- A leadership reflection checklist across all five T.R.U.S.T. imperatives
- Year-over-year trend data on discretionary effort, burnout indicators, and Gen Z representation
- Data from 110,000+ employee voices across 130+ organizations in Consulting, Staffing & Recruitment, GCC, BPO, Accounting, Legal, and more
- Real best-people-practices
Ready to Remove Drag?
Download the report and explore the future of organizational performance.
