Appendix A

May 2023 Future of Jobs Report 2023

Analysis methodology

This report is based on an analysis of the results of the fourth edition of an extensive survey of senior

executives leading people and culture, strategy and innovation functions within leading global

employers. Established in 2015, the Future of Jobs Survey has been instrumental in providing insights

into the evolution of jobs and skills under the Fourth Industrial Revolution. It is a pioneering measurement

tool that enables companies and governments to map their workforce planning for the next five years.

The survey data is collected across countries and industries, providing a much-needed compass for

private- and public-sector leaders who strive to ensure a better future of work for all.

Survey design

The survey builds on the methodology from the previous survey editions. Following survey best

practices and informed by literature review, several questions were refined and new questions were

added.

The survey consists of four interrelated parts. Business Trends 2022-2027 focuses on the trends

that are likely to transform industries in the next five years and their job-creation outlook. It also

examines technology adoption at the organization level, and its impact on jobs. Occupation Trends

2022-2027specialized and strategic roles that are relevant to maps the mass-employment and

businesses and how these are expected to evolve until 2027. Skill Trends 2022-2027 analyses the

priorities of businesses in terms of skills and collects information on training programmes and employee

reskilling needs and efforts. 2022-2027 explores the talent strategies and talent-Workforce Practices

management practices in organizations.

The survey is comprised of 44 questions and was made available in 12 languages: Arabic, Chinese

(simplified), Czech, Georgian, Hebrew, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Thai

and Turkish. The survey collection process was conducted via Qualtrics, with data collection

spanning a four-month period from November 2022 to February 2023.

Representativeness

The survey set out to represent the current strategies, projections and estimates of global

businesses, with a focus on large multinational companies and more localized companies which

are of significance due to their employee or revenue size. As such, there are three areas of the future

of jobs that remain out of scope for this report; namely, the future of jobs as it relates to the

activities of small enterprises, the public sector and the informal sector.

The Future of Jobs Survey was distributed through collaboration between the World Economic Forum

and its regional survey partners, amplified by the World Economic Forum’s extensive network

and its constituents. The survey is also the result of cross-departmental coordination within the

World Economic Forum. The Forum’s Centre for Advanced Manufacturing and Supply Chains;

Centre for Energy and Materials; Centre for Financial and Monetary Systems; Centre for Health

and Healthcare; Platform for Shaping the Future of Digital Economy and New Value Creation; Centre

for the Fourth Industrial Revolution and Global Industries Team supported the report team’s efforts

to collect relevant samples. For key partners in the survey distribution process, please refer to the

Survey Partners and Acknowledgements sections.

Detailed sample design specifications were shared with survey partners, requesting that the sample of

companies targeted for participation in the survey should be drawn from a cross-section of leading

companies that make up an economy or region’s business. The target companies were specified as

the largest multinational and national companies, significant in terms of revenue or employee size.

The threshold was set at companies with 100 employees or more as questions concerning

technology absorption and its consequential impact on employee planning are most relevant for larger

companies with a significant share of employment.

The final sub-selection of countries with data of sufficient quality to be featured in the report was

based on the overall number of responses from

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