‘Disconnect’ in How Workers, Employers View Skills Gap in Pandemic: IBM
COVID-19 is widening the skills gap and raising employee expectations of their employers, an IBM study found. IBM's 2018 research found an estimated 120 million workers in the world's 12 largest economies would need to be “retrained or reskilled” because…
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of artificial intelligence and automation innovations the next three years. “That challenge has only been exacerbated in the midst of the" pandemic. As many executives try to speed their enterprises’ digital transformation, the new report finds “inadequate skills is one of their biggest hurdles.” There’s a “disconnect” in how effectively leaders and employees think companies are “addressing these gaps,” the tech company said. Three-quarters of executives say their employers help them learn the needed skills, compared with 38% of employees who agreed. Eight in 10 executives gave their companies high marks for supporting employees' physical and emotional health; 46% of employees agreed.