The Total Workforce Index™ (TWI) is the only tool of its kind to assess the relative ease of sourcing, hiring and retaining both contingent and permanent workforce skills in competing labor markets around the world.
Introduction
Differentiating and diversifying workforce strategies to create the right combination of skills, workforce mix, and labor markets will help organizations face rapidly evolving markets. The Total Workforce Index™ (TWI) provides a vital edge in the race for talent focusing short, medium, and long-term investments on labor markets with the most potential in sectors or skill sets that will shape the post-pandemic world.
This year’s TWI provides clarity across far-reaching challenges: rising demand, inflation and wage pressure, low unemployment, changing demographics, geopolitical upheaval – most notably Russia’s war with Ukraine – and intense competition for talent.
As organizations focus on growing and scaling their businesses, ManpowerGroup Talent Solutions can partner with you to define the right workforce mix and help you attract, assess, develop and retain talent. Explore this website to understand the high-level TWI data and dig deeper into our market analysis. To identify the factors and findings most important to your organization, request a comprehensive custom analysis.
Leveraging the Total Workforce Index™
Just as the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of a market is used as an economic indicator; the Total Workforce Index™ may be used as an indicator of workforce potential. Total Workforce Index™ rankings provide important perspectives and insights that can influence both short- and long-term strategies involving workforce procurement, including:
- Remote Work Allocation
- Organizational Restructuring
- Location Strategy
- Direct Sourcing Strategy
- Crowdsourced Sourcing Strategy
- Capacity Planning
- Diversity and Inclusion
- Workforce Mix
- Cost Savings
- Compliance
Customize the index based on the factors most important to your organization.
Request a comprehensive custom analysis to better inform your workforce strategy.
2022 Total Workforce Index™
The annual analysis of the Total Workforce Index™ scores over 60 global workforce markets based on over 200 unique factors. From the TWI data, ManpowerGroup Talent Solutions develops country and regional profiles based on how markets score in each of the four categories (Availability, Cost Efficiency, Regulation and Productivity).
Explore this site to access the Workforce Results and Market Profiles.
Download ReportThe Total Workforce Index™ in Action
Customizing the Total Workforce Index™ to address an organization’s unique needs provides businesses around the world with the timely, relevant workforce data and insights needed to thrive in today’s fast-changing environment.
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Global Manufacturer Uses Location Strategy to Lower Costs While Optimizing Its Workforce and Improving Sustainability
With a need to drive productivity, cost efficiency and workforce sustainability, the company needed to know which U.S. and EU sites could be downsized while understanding optimal locations in Central America and Asia. A custom TWI analysis focused on a quantified comparison of locations, and recommendations for site consolidation to support business objectives.
Client's Needs
High-volume, high productivity production workers
A sustainable workforce
Cost savings
Reweighted Priorities
Availability
Cost
Productivity
Regulation
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Global Restaurant Chain Needs Skilled Technical Talent to Work Across Time Zones for Its Data Analytics Hub
A fast-growing Fortune 100 food service company needed volume data analysts, engineers and scientists to staff a global data analytics hub. The TWI was customized to emphasize remote workforce availability, coverage across time zones and workforce sustainability to ensure an ongoing supply of talent for years to come.
Client's Needs
Remote capability- A sustainable tech workforce
Favorable labor regulations
Reweighted Priorities
- Availability
- Cost
- Productivity
- Regulation
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Telecommunications Firm Needs Workforce Analysis to Drive Nearshoring Business Objectives
A Fortune 100 needed to evaluate its current global workforce investments for cost containment, restructuring, nearshoring and regulatory reasons. A custom TWI analysis focused on remote workforce availability for specific roles, IP-related regulatory needs and options for nearshoring.
Client's Needs
- Ensure IP protection
- Favorable labor regulations
- Remote capability
Reweighted Priorities
- Availability
- Cost
- Productivity
- Regulation
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Tech Company Seeks Highly Skilled Diverse Talent to Work Onsite
COVID-19 drove a lot of tech talent out of Silicon Valley, leaving a Fortune 500 company with limited resources to meet critical onsite needs. A custom TWI analysis focused on emerging technology clusters, tech talent migration, diversity, targeted skill clusters and cost efficiency.
Client's Needs
- Highly skilled tech talent
- Improved diversity
- Cost savings
Reweighted Priorities
- Availability
- Cost
- Productivity
- Regulation
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Technology real-estate company seeks to nearshore highly specific IT roles
Facing a shortage of skilled talent, a U.S.-based digital company needed to fill hundreds of highly skilled IT roles. The TWI was customized to identify pools of sustainable talent for these roles within the client’s time zone.
Client's Needs
- A sustainable highly skilled tech workforce
- Bilingual capabilities
- Time zone alignment with U.S. headquarters
- Cost savings
Reweighted Priorities
- Availability
- Cost
- Productivity
- Regulation
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Global food conglomerate needs location strategy to attract a diverse technology workforce
A large food company needed to identify markets for technicians and engineers in Latin America. Lacking a sufficient existing presence in the region to support their needs, they sought markets that could offer a sustainable remote workforce.
Client's Needs
- A sustainable highly skilled tech workforce
- Remote capability
- Secure remote environment
- Regulatory ease
- Cost efficiency
Reweighted Priorities
- Availability
- Cost
- Productivity
- Regulation
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