The 8 Laws of Employee Experience

How to Build a Future-Ready Organization

Jacob Morgan

• Publisher: Wiley
• Year: 2026
• Print ISBN: 9781394273997
• eBook ISBN: 9781394274000
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Economics
• Subtopic: Economic Theory
• Index: Economics

Organizations around the world have lost their way. It's time to get back to basics and focus on what really drives people and performance.

In chasing talent, organizations have turned employee experience into an entitlement culture – lavishing perks without accountability, lowering standards in the name of empathy, and confusing short-term fixes with long-term solutions. The result? Performance suffers, leaders are scared to lead, and culture drifts.

The 8 Laws of Employee Experience is a reset, a new framework to build a future-ready organization in an AI driven world. Best-selling author and professionally trained futurist Jacob Morgan shows that employee experience must return to its core: a value exchange where employees contribute, grow, and lead, and where organizations enable them to thrive. Based on over 100 CHRO interviews at companies like Verizon, Delta, Hilton, IBM,and LVMH, Morgan lays out eight unshakeable laws that form the new operating system for the future of work.

This book isn't just about where we are today – it's about where employee experience is going over the next decade, and how leaders can design the future instead of being dragged into it.

After reading this book you'll learn how to:

• Separate signal from noise in an era of trend-chasing with the STEEPLE methodology
• Discover the eight laws required to build a future-ready organization and how to implement them
• Use futurist frameworks like the Cone of Possibilities to map out multiple employee experience scenarios
• Conduct a future-ready audit to see where your company stands today and where it must go next
• Explore the five potential futures of employee experience and how to steer your organization towards the right one
• Challenge the myth that employee experience is about making people happy

Combining insights from CHROs who are collectively leading millions of people around the world with a futurist framework, The 8 Laws of Employee Experience: How to Build a Future-Ready Organization offers a blueprint to design organizations that don't just adapt to the future but build it. You'll see what works, what fails, and what the future demands.

Table of contents

• COVER
• TABLE OF CONTENTS
• TITLE PAGE
• COPYRIGHT
• DEDICATION
• ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
• INTRODUCTION
• CHAPTER 1: The STEEPLE Framework for Employee Experience Trends
• CHAPTER 2: Trends Are Not Truths
• CHAPTER 3: Law #1 Decode the Human Signal
• CHAPTER 4: Law #2 Act with Empathetic Excellence
• CHAPTER 5: Law #3 Grow or Go
• CHAPTER 6: Law #4 Design for Flexibility
• CHAPTER 7: Law #5 Make People the First Principle
• CHAPTER 8: Law #6 Lead Like the Experience Starts with You
• CHAPTER 9: Law #7 Use Technology to Amplify Humanity
• CHAPTER 10: Law #8 Run Culture Like an Operating System
• CHAPTER 11: The Future-Ready EX Diagnostic Tool
• CHAPTER 12: The Cone of Possibilities
• CHAPTER 13: The Future-Ready Audit: Turning Possibilities into Action
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• ABOUT THE AUTHOR
• INDEX
• END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT