Lightcast Expands its Work Intelligence Capabilities for a Changing World of Work

Lightcast's updated data, software, and services give organizations a trusted, market-aligned view of jobs, tasks, and skills for workforce decisions

MOSCOW, Idaho, Oct. 12, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- 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.

For more than two decades, Lightcast has helped organizations understand the labor market by analyzing billions of signals about jobs, people, companies, and skills, compiling them into data that can be used for real-world decisions. Today, that foundation is evolving into a more comprehensive view of work: connecting how work is organized, the activities that make it up, and the capabilities people need to perform it.

In the age of AI and fundamental shifts in how work gets done, Lightcast is addressing one of the biggest challenges facing employers today: making faster, more confident workforce decisions grounded in reliable data. The intelligence to inform consequential workforce decisions is fragmented across job architecture, HCM systems, learning platforms, talent marketplaces, and internal frameworks. At the same time, the world those systems are meant to describe is changing at an increased pace. Decision makers need more than taxonomies or point-in-time analyses; they need a shared, dynamic understanding of work that can connect their internal workforce to the broader market.

Lightcast Work Intelligence provides that layer by connecting jobs, tasks, and skills in a 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 the roles, work, and capabilities they need.

"Leaders are being asked to make consequential business and workforce decisions with data that was never designed to answer the questions they face," said Jennifer Seith, CPO of Lightcast. "Understanding jobs alone isn't enough. Skills alone aren't enough. Organizations need to understand how jobs, tasks, and skills connect, how they are changing in the market, and what those changes mean for their own workforce. That is the role of Work Intelligence."

A More Complete Understanding of Work

At the center of Lightcast Work Intelligence are three connected dimensions:

Jobs provide a consistent way to understand how work is organized.
Tasks describe the activities that make up the work, and the choices AI offers.
Skills describe the capabilities people need to perform.

Connecting those dimensions creates a fuller picture than any one can provide independently. Lightcast's taxonomies organize and normalize that information across the labor market, while ongoing market signals help organizations understand how requirements are changing.

Lightcast has continued to expand the depth of that intelligence. Its Work Intelligence now encompasses more than 1,800 specialized occupations, more than 34,000 skills, and more than 36,000 job-specific task statements, all joined up to enable robust decision making.

But the value of Work Intelligence goes beyond the size of a taxonomy. Lightcast continuously maintains those relationships, provides external benchmarks, incorporates organization-specific context, and gives customers the governance and transparency necessary to inform the biggest decisions leaders need to make in the years ahead.

A Trusted Intelligence Layer Across the Enterprise

As workforce data is central to unlocking business value from new technology such as generative AI and robotics, Lightcast is maintaining an independent approach designed to work across the systems organizations already use.

Lightcast Work Intelligence can provide a consistent layer across HR technology environments, helping organizations preserve a common understanding of jobs, tasks, and skills even as their technology choices evolve.

"Jobs, tasks, and skills are becoming a foundational layer for how enterprises understand and manage work. Lightcast's combination of external labor-market intelligence and an independent approach to the HR technology ecosystem gives it an important position in that evolving market," said Stacia Garr, Co-Founder and Principal Analyst, RedThread Research.

Lightcast works across major HCM ecosystems and a broad network of HR and learning technology providers. That flexibility allows organizations to bring market-aligned Work Intelligence into the platforms and workflows where workforce decisions already happen, rather than creating another isolated source of workforce data.

From Understanding Work to Making Better Decisions

Work Intelligence is central to how modern organizations execute change and make business and talent decisions with clarity. It forms a robust basis for AI-led transformation, dynamic job architecture, strategic workforce planning, skills strategy, talent development, mobility, and broader workforce transformation.

For example, a major global apparel company utilizes Lightcast Work Intelligence across jobs, tasks and skills to harmonize its job structure, understand how roles compare with the external market, identify emerging and declining skills, maintain workforce frameworks as market conditions change, and connect workforce intelligence across its technology ecosystem.

Lightcast provides the infrastructure for work intelligence however customers need it, through a flexible combination of data, software, and expert services, allowing organizations to start with the workforce questions most important to them and apply the intelligence in the way that best fits their context.

For major employers, Lightcast's rich task taxonomy is embedded into Talent Transform, the leading software solution for organizing, governing, and applying job, task, and skill intelligence. This enables decision makers to build realistic, market-aligned workforce plans and target AI investments with unified job, task, and skill insight. The solution then carries their choices into the HCM and talent systems to power HR processes and drive business value.

"The goal is not simply to give organizations more workforce data," Seith said. "It is to give them a trusted understanding of work that stays current, connects across their organization, and helps them make better decisions about what they need next."

To learn more about Lightcast's approach to Work Intelligence and why organizations need a trusted, connected understanding of jobs, tasks, and skills, read the new Lightcast white paper, Work Intelligence You Can Trust.

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.

Lightcast has offices in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Italy, New Zealand, and India. Learn more at lightcast.io

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