Ideas
Explore the world's #1 largest database of ideas and innovations, with 476,769 inspiring examples.
Trend Reports
Discover why 1,283 brands rely on our AI-powered Trend Reports to get better, faster insights.
Newsletter
Join 304,106 subscribers who rely on our weekly newsletter to keep up with need-to-know trends and insights.
How to Hunt
Learn more about how to hunt megatrends, ideas, patterns and opportunity.
Consumer Insights
Uncover major shifts and emerging opportunities with our exclusive PRO research.
Trend Reports
Discover why 1,283 brands rely on our AI-powered Trend Reports to get better, faster insights.
Newsletter
Join 304,106 subscribers who rely on our weekly newsletter to keep up with need-to-know trends and insights.
How to Hunt
Learn more about how to hunt megatrends, ideas, patterns and opportunity.
Advisory & Services
Accelerate innovation and ignite disruptive thinking with our award-winning programs and research.
Trend Reports
Get fast, customized trend reports, presentations and deep dives 20x faster than traditional research.
Plans
Get started today with a free consultation, our self-serve tools, or a dedicated program.
Articles & Magazine
Get inspired with our 4,231 innovation strategy articles, keynote, videos and innovation tools.
Innovation Awards
Trend Hunter’s Innovation Strategy Awards recognize the best innovation tactics gathered from our interviews with some of the world's most notable business leaders, authors and change makers.
Advisory & Services
Accelerate innovation and ignite disruptive thinking with our award-winning programs and research.
Innovation Assessment
Enhance your innovation potential with a deeper understanding of your unique innovation archetype and how your organization benchmarks.
FuturistU
Prepare for the years ahead with 100+ lessons, tactics, tools and frameworks with our full learning database.
Innovation Books
Join 20,000,000 people getting better and faster with our New York Times Bestselling books and keynote videos.
Jeremy Gutsche
Ignite your event or virtual event with our CEO, a NY Times Bestselling Author and one of the top innovation keynote speakers.
Our Team of Speakers & Virtual Presenters
Inspire your group with our most popular speakers on innovation, trends, change and futurism.
Custom Training & Events
Bring the Future Festival experience directly to your team or co-hosted custom event.
Custom Masterclasses
Join the world's leading brands who leverage our custom programs to accelerate innovation.
FuturistU 5-Day Program
Become a Futurist with our immersive 5-Day program at Future Festival World Summit.
Online eLearning
Learn the fundamentals of futurism and trends with 100+ online courses about innovation.
How to Hunt
Learn more about how to hunt megatrends, ideas, patterns and opportunity.
Contact
Get in touch to learn more, ask a question or submit a tip.
About Us
Learn more about Trend Hunter and how we accelerate innovation.
Follow-Us
Join our 3,500,000 social media followers, on the cutting edge.
How to Hunt
Learn more about how to hunt megatrends, ideas, patterns and opportunity.
FAQ
Get answers to common questions about Trend Hunter.
Community
Stay on the cutting-edge with the help of the Trend Hunter community.
Team
Meet the team trusted by hundreds of leading businesses worldwide.
Jobs
Find opportunities to accelerate your career with the #1 Trend Firm.
News
Catch up on noteworthy Trend Hunter news and media mentions.
Join
Build a portfolio and put your trend-spotting abilities to the test.
Advertising
Supercharge your marketing by partnering with Trend Hunter.
Portfolio
Visit your public portfolio and browse your past articles.
Add a Trend
Write up an article and showcase your trend-spotting skills.
My Trends
Edit your articles and see how they stack up on the leaderboards.
Settings
Edit your profile, connect your social media accounts, and more.
Add a trend, customize your dashboard, or track topics.
Future Festival
Innovation Events
Join the world's top innovators at our in person events.
Free Webinars
Learn to innovate through chaos, navigate the new normal and maintain work culture from home.
Custom Training & Events
Bring the Future Festival experience directly to your team or co-hosted custom event.
Search our database of 476,769 cutting edge ideas.

Job Trends Consumer Insights

Protected Display
Displays built into suitcases are designed for on-the-go situations
Trend - Businesses are launching portable monitors built directly into foldable cases. These cases house built-in batteries for the display while protecting the display from damage. This design results in several use cases for these displays from workplace showpieces to on-the-go entertainment.

Insight - Jobs that necessitate travel to different environments bring a number of challenges for workers. Particularly for workers who need to travel for conferences, conventions, and other showcases, it is necessary to always have their required tools safe and ready to use, whether it be to set up a booth or market a product. Brands are now designing products engineered for these professionals that ensure necessary tech devices are both portable and protected for frequent travelers.
Workshop Question - How could your brand develop products or services that enhance workplace utility?
6.2
Score
Popularity
Activity
Freshness
Patterns
Megatrends
Daily Automation
Advanced robots are being used to automate simple to complex tasks
Trend - Robotics companies are launching advanced robots capable of automating tasks in the workplace and the home. These robots have dexterous limbs, precision accuracy, and reliable problem-solving skills. Businesses are using these to automate simple and menial to complex jobs in the workplace.

Insight - Some of the most undesirable tasks in the workplace and in the home are menial, repetitive duties. The agents responsible for these tasks often burnout of their jobs quickly, leading to high turnover rates in the workplace, or tasks left unfinished in the home. Given the simplicity of many of these tasks, businesses desire automated solutions that alleviate strain from workers to focus energy on more complex tasks. Robotics brands are launching dexterous, capable robots in response.
Workshop Question - How could your brand benefit from access to advanced robotic workers?
6.1
Score
Popularity
Activity
Freshness
Patterns
Megatrends
AI Training
Workplaces are using generative AI to train and improve employee efficiency
Trend - Workplaces are using generative artificial intelligence to craft training modules, provide feedback, and improve overall onboarding experiences for employees. These AI models deliver accurate feedback more quickly than human workers, saving companies time and money on onboarding.

Insight - For many businesses, onboarding is an expensive process, often requiring time and resources invested from multiple other employees and branches of the businesses. As a result, these businesses continually search for ways to streamline the onboarding process while ensuring that new employees are prepared for their jobs. These businesses desire no-compromises automation that is customizable to suit each required role, leading to generative AI being used to create onboarding models.
Workshop Question - How could your brand implement generative AI training processes to improve its overall workplace efficiency?
6.6
Score
Popularity
Activity
Freshness
Patterns
Megatrends
E-Ink Display
Manufacturers are leveraging E-Ink technology to improve display efficiency
Trend - Laptop, tablet, and monitor brands in the computer hardware industry are using e-ink technology to create highly efficient displays. These displays consume less power, are more cost-effective, and are more durable when compared to IPS, OLED, or other display technologies.

Insight - As remote work becomes the norm, these workers turn to efficient, cost-effective hardware. Many remote workers do not require industry-leading performance and instead turn to reliability. Two of the most important factors with travel laptops are weight and battery life, particularly in cases where work consists only of typing, emailing, and web browsing. This does not apply to video editors and content creators, as these fields require demanding performance from computers. As traditional screen technologies such as IPS and TN approach minimum power consumption limits, manufacturers are turning to e-ink displays to better appease these remote workers' desires.
Workshop Question - Which technologies could be repurposed to improve one aspect of your industry?
5.7
Score
Popularity
Activity
Freshness
Patterns
Megatrends
VR Mask
Brands are creating mouth masks for VR that mute wearers' voices to the physical world
Trend - As virtual reality becomes more prevalent in entertainment and remote work, companies look to make VR more convenient for offices or busy homes, resulting in mouth-covering masks that receive microphone inputs for VR while muting the speaker's voice to the actual surrounding world.

Insight - Virtual worlds aim to fully immerse users into the environment from a sensory standpoint. This includes visual and audio sensations. However, many users find that becoming immersed in VR can become disruptive to nearby people in the physical world, leading to users not wanting to speak loudly or behave normally out of respect for neighboring people. The introduction of mute masks for VR allows users to express themselves truly without disturbing coworkers, family members, or friends.
Workshop Question - How could your brand improve work environments with modern tech?
7.1
Score
Popularity
Activity
Freshness
Patterns
Megatrends
Avatar Worker
Retailers are hiring remote workers with realistic in-store avatars for service
Trend - Retail stores and restaurants are addressing employee droughts by partnering with metaverse and AI companies to deploy on-site realistic avatars controlled by remote workers. This drastically expands the eligibility pool for employees while ensuring customer service remains a priority.

Insight - The core reason why many consumers still prefer shopping in stores rather than online is human interaction, the ability to get help from a knowledgeable retail representative. As businesses increasingly turn to self-service kiosks and AI-powered customer service systems, the benefits of brick-and-mortar shopping become lesser. As a result, stores have turned to 3D virtual avatars controlled by actual humans, which satiates consumers' needs to interact with a human retail representative while alleviating strain on workers.
Workshop Question - Could metaverse avatars and remote employees benefit your industry?
5.5
Score
Popularity
Activity
Freshness
Patterns
Megatrends
Female-Focused Recovery
Brands are supporting female economic recovery in light of COVID-19
Trend - The COVID-19 crisis has disproportionately affected women economically as many traditionally female-oriented jobs–like retail and childcare–were forced to close. To support this demographic, brands are launching funding, courses, and platforms to help women more easily re-enter the workforce.

Insight - Women, and in particular women of color, have been disproportionate discriminated in the workplace and unequal opportunities in the workplace. Now, women are also more likely to be responsible for child care duties as society continues to physical distance, limiting their scope of work. Informed consumers are increasingly dissatisfied with the failing systems that have long promoted gender inequalities and are pressuring brands and institutions to better support vulnerable people.
Workshop Question - How can your brand prioritize its diversity and inclusion efforts to support women and people of color?
1.6
Score
Popularity
Activity
Freshness
Patterns
Megatrends
Gamified Doctor
Companies are launching gamified platforms for immersive medical training
Trend - Many developers are working alongside medical professionals to develop immersive mobile and multi-media games to help doctors in training. Emphasizing the practical experience and removing the fear of error, these gamified platforms are more accessible and engaging.

Insight - Many contemporary consumers maintain that immersion through gamified experiences makes content more memorable and engaging for them. In training, individuals who partake in such ventures—whether it is to identify the hazards of the job or for hands-on procedures—experience a sense of security as they feel more comfortable to test and practice their skills in a simulated and risk-free environment of trial-and-error.
Workshop Question - How might you gamify the training experiences for workers in your industry?
3
Score
Popularity
Activity
Freshness
Patterns
Megatrends
Virtual Job Fairs
Brands are launching virtual events to find and hire employees
Trend - As in-person events become restricted due to the COVID-19 pandemic, various brands are launching virtual job fairs to find talent while maintaining social distancing regulations. These span from individual companies looking to fill new roles to talent recruiters seeking to meet candidates.

Insight - The COVID-19 pandemic has lead many consumers to struggle financially as many employers are forced to lay off staff and freelance work becomes more limited. These consumers are forced into an uncertain job market and lack the opportunity to meet employers in-person—significantly impacting traditional methods of job hunting. As a result, they are turning to brands to provide virtual opportunities to find employment from the safety of their homes.
Workshop Question - How can your brand shift its services to reach consumers virtually?
1.5
Score
Popularity
Activity
Freshness
Patterns
Megatrends
Temporary Workspace
Brands are accommodating remote workers with functional & adaptable furniture
Trend - Brands are offering service and product innovations that are temporary in nature to assist employees who are working from home. Whether it is cardboard-based furniture or a monthly subscription, these ventures prove to be accessible and cost-effective.

Insight - Working remotely for an employer results in its own unique obstacles, and individuals in this position have a strong need to feel valued at their company in a way that better replicates in-office experience. The act of assisting with the challenges of working from home has the potential to result in higher levels of efficiency, productivity, and loyalty as the employee feels fulfilled and supported throughout their day-to-day.
Workshop Question - How might your brand support a remote employee?
5.6
Score
Popularity
Activity
Freshness
Patterns
Megatrends