Future at Work 2026 – shape the conversation

We’re pleased to invite you to take part in Lewis Silkin’s flagship Future at Work research initiative – designed to equip organisations with forward-thinking, practical insights into the evolving world of work.

As a valued HR practitioner and senior decision maker in APAC, your perspective is incredibly important. By completing our short, you’ll help us build a richer, more actionable picture of how organisations are navigating change and in return, gain access to exclusive benchmarking data and strategic insights to support your planning for 2025 and beyond. Use it to spot what’s coming, plot your next move and build the resilience every organisation wants and needs in an uncertain world.

Future at Work 2026 will explore many of the strategic and legal challenges that underpin the Ius Laboris APAC conference themes, ranging from AI governance and workforce transformation to people’s mobility, regulatory complexity and the evolving classification of work.

What distinguishes the APAC context is the diversity of legal responses to these pressures. Governments are moving at different speeds on AI, with Singapore pioneering voluntary model frameworks while China strengthens algorithmic oversight. Tight labour markets and high-profile team moves amplify the global ‘war on talent’, while disputes in Australia and India over the status of gig workers keep classification questions at the centre of legal reform. At the same time, rising cost pressures and restructuring challenges echo the wellbeing and resourcing concerns identified in our survey, forcing employers to balance reskilling and redundancy in difficult organisational decisions.

These parallel developments underline that the issues raised in our global research are not distant megatrends but immediate realities shaping employment law in APAC. By taking part in the survey, you’ll help ensure the region’s unique context is represented in a leading international study and gain insights to help your organisation stay resilient, agile and future-ready.

What does the future of work look like for your organisation?

Take the survey today and help shape the conversation