ManpowerGroup: Future of work
For VivaTech 2025, ManpowerGroup tapped Casey Wishart & Partners to craft a standout C-suite experience. We designed a card game inspired format - complete with 'wild cards' - to provoke rich dialogue. We then convened a group of non-competing peers to exchange ideas. Participants valued building connections, comparing perspectives and developing business opportunities in a short, memorable and highly enjoyable setting. Their delight with the format resulted in most participants sharing the content we captured across their own platforms, amplifying the organic distribution and proving that the most effective events happen when you work the room, not just the mic.
Speakers: Sylvain Letourmy - Business Development Leader, Oracle; Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic - Chief Innovation Officer, ManpowerGroup; Cécile Clavier - Head of Digital Transformation and Innovation, Nestlé France; David Sebaoun - Executive Partner Hybrid Cloud, Data & AI, IBM Consulting; Atreya Chaganty - CEO, Quantanite; Muriel Vidémont-Delaborde - Senior Partner, Kearney
Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic: What are your thoughts on the automation augmentation debate?
Muriel Vidémont-Delaborde: I will be a bit blunt but I think that companies are really a lot focused on automation and productivity.
David Sebaoun: We need to have a human in the loop. Humans have some bias. So it's not saying that AI should have the final word, but that AI can bring maybe more objective.
Atreya Chaganty: As recently as a few years ago, we were spending almost 70% of our recruitment time in interviewing the wrong people.
Cécile Clavier: What we need in the companies today is people with these backgrounds, maybe data engineer and data science, but then, having the ability to understand the business need.
Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic: AI fundamentally is something that automates the passage of data to insights and from insights to actions. But you need to standardize before you can automate.
And if you automate chaos, you get chaos.
Sylvain Letourmy: This generation will have the opportunity, with the technology that is available, to make things completely differently from the way we've done it in the past and we will need people who will have purpose.
We are reaching a point where the limit is not with the technology anymore.
The question is not what we can do, it is what we want to do and what we are ready to do in terms of culture.
