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Affordability, vitality, resiliency, and employee wellbeing are the key areas of focus when it comes to employee benefits in 2025. With this outlook, see how organizations will embrace innovative strategies as the cost of healthcare benefits—driven largely by skyrocketing pharmaceutical prices—will continue to pressure employers who are committed to maintaining these and other benefits. In addition, employers are enhancing benefits to improve mental health and employee wellbeing.

After several years of rapid innovation in areas like 5G connectivity, artificial intelligence (AI), health tech, and more, 2025 will be the year when these strides start to bear fruit and new technology goes from potential to proven. To prepare for meeting the tech challenges ahead and claim new opportunities amid the digital disruptions, here are this year’s seven tech trends and predictions.

Growth is at the top of the menu for finance leaders as Grant Thornton’s CFO survey shows that the uncertainty associated with the U.S. election in 2024 has given way to unrestrained optimism about the U.S. economy and meeting business goals. Other results from the survey were broadly aligned with high growth expectations—and with the transformation to an increasingly digital landscape that has been a focus for CFOs for the past few years. As CFOs look ahead, the environment appears to favor investment in growth.

In a work environment where employees increasingly say they are burned out, this survey of 1,500 respondents shows that the most successful employers will be the ones who support their employees to alleviate the stressors consuming today’s workforce and challenging leaders. While the increase in burnout was a major finding, the survey also revealed other insights and notable findings that include the impact and importance of benefits and pay as the top two reasons to join a company and stay.

The family office industry is constantly evolving, and the family offices that embrace the changing dynamics continue to be successful in achieving their overall purpose. As in the first edition, this second edition of the Plante Moran Family Office Book provides timely and relevant insights to help family office professionals manage, operate, and evolve a best-in-class, forward-looking family office.

Artificial Intelligence (AI), including generative AI, has the power to transform your enterprise—to the extent you can integrate its capabilities and drive adoption. In other words, the limit is not within the technology itself, but within the ability to imagine and implement practical applications. Getting started with AI is about more than how you’ll use it. It’s about preparing your data, systems, processes, and most of all, your people. You need a data-driven, people-centric, and governance-focused AI strategy.