READY FOR RETRAINING
Almost three quarters (74 per cent) of people surveyed by PwC are ready to learn a new skill or completely retrain to keep themselves employable, seeing it as their personal responsibility and not employers, to keep their skills updated.
The findings are from PwC’s latest report, Workforce of the future: the competing forces shaping 2030, which includes finding from a survey of 10,000 people across the UK, Germany, China, India and the US. Their views reinforce a shift to continuous learning while earning, so employees can keep up with technology’s impact on jobs and the workplace.
The report examines four worlds of work in 2030, to show how competing forces, including automation, are shaping the workforces of the future. Each scenario has huge implications for the world of work, which cannot be ignored by governments, organisations or individuals.
The majority of respondents believe technology will improve their job prospects (65 per cent) although workers in the US (73 per cent) and India (88 per cent) are more confident, than those in the UK (40 per cent) and Germany (48 per cent). Overall, nearly three quarters believe technology will never replace the human mind (73 per cent) and the majority (86 per cent) say human skills will always be in demand, according to the reports.
