Strengthening Workforce Resilience in a Changing Climate

Connecting Climate Risk and Human Capital Data to Strengthen Workforce Resilience

By overlaying climate risk models with workforce analytics, organizations can proactively address risks and strengthen workforce resilience. This approach also helps protect employee health and ensures business continuity amid growing volatility. Predictive analytics can help HR leaders anticipate extreme weather impacts. Vulnerability to natural disasters can be paired with both employee location data and health data on certain conditions workers may have, like asthma or diabetes, that could make them vulnerable to extreme weather.

Talent location analytics have become increasingly important to HR leaders and organizations. Beyond technical and sourcing requirements, companies looking for new locations or where to expand existing operations, also need to consider skills, education and demographics along with the likelihood of disruptive extreme weather events like wildfires, extreme heat or floods. Complicating that analysis is the fact that as the climate changes, extreme weather events are occurring in places unaccustomed to such events.

Examples from just a six-week period in 2025 alone include a cyclone-like storm that hit Ireland, a “fire tornado” spotted in Los Angeles during the wildfires and flooding in the desert city of Dubai that has now occurred twice within a year.