Lightcast, the global leader in labor market intelligence, today announced a significant expansion of its Work Intelligence capabilities, giving organizations a more complete, connected understanding of jobs, tasks, and skills and a stronger layer for making workforce decisions as work continues to change. The updated data, software, and services provide trusted, market-aligned view of work for workforce decisions.
In the age of AI and fundamental shifts in how work gets done, Lightcast is addressing biggest challenge facing employers: making faster, more confident workforce decisions grounded in reliable data. Intelligence to inform consequential workforce decisions is fragmented across job architecture, HCM systems, learning platforms, talent marketplaces, and internal frameworks while world those systems describe is changing at increased pace.
Lightcast Work Intelligence provides layer by connecting jobs, tasks, and skills in common framework grounded in labor market evidence. Together, connected taxonomies, evidence of employer demand, and transparent methodologies help organizations understand how market changes connect to roles, work, and capabilities they need.
At center are three connected dimensions: jobs provide consistent way to understand how work is organized, tasks describe activities that make up work and choices AI offers, and skills describe capabilities people need to perform. Connecting dimensions creates fuller picture than any one can provide independently. Taxonomies organize and normalize information across labor market, while ongoing market signals help understand how requirements are changing.
As workforce data is central to unlocking business value from new technology such as generative AI and robotics, Lightcast is maintaining independent approach designed to work across systems organizations already use. Work Intelligence can provide consistent layer across HR technology environments, helping preserve common understanding even as technology choices evolve.
Lightcast works across major HCM ecosystems and broad network of HR and learning technology providers. Flexibility allows organizations to bring market-aligned Work Intelligence into platforms and workflows where workforce decisions already happen, rather than creating another isolated source of workforce data.
Work Intelligence is central to how modern organizations execute change and make business and talent decisions with clarity. It forms robust basis for AI-led transformation, dynamic job architecture, strategic workforce planning, skills strategy, talent development, mobility, and broader workforce transformation. For example, major global apparel company utilizes Lightcast Work Intelligence to harmonize job structure, compare roles with external market, identify emerging and declining skills, maintain frameworks as market conditions change, and connect intelligence across technology ecosystem.
ABOUT LIGHTCAST
Lightcast provides the world's most comprehensive labor market intelligence, empowering smarter decisions for businesses, education institutions, and governments worldwide. With a database spanning over 3 billion job postings, 1.2 billion career profiles, and 100+ government sources, Lightcast delivers unparalleled insight into jobs, tasks, skills, companies, professional profiles, and workforce trends across 165 countries. Lightcast's proprietary taxonomies, advanced AI, and expert guidance transform complex data into clear, actionable intelligence.
Recognized as one of America's Top WorkTech Companies by TIME, Lightcast is regularly cited in top news outlets as the leading source of data and insights on AI, skills, and demographic shifts in the labor market.
