- Human-machine frontier
This bar chart shows the share of tasks performed by humans and machines today and in 2027,
based on responses to “Currently/In five years, what proportion of time spent doing the following
tasks in your organization cannot be automated (that is, performed by machines and algorithms) and
is thus spent by your human workforce performing the task?”.
PeriodSource: 2022-2023: World Economic Forum, Future of Jobs
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- Core skills
This bar and table estimate the relative importance of eight groups of skills for companies. It is based
on responses by the companies that operate in the respective economy or region to the the question,
“What are the core skills workers currently need to perform well in the key roles with a stable outlook?”,
where respondents are able to select all the level-3 skills in the Global Skills Taxonomy that apply. The
relative importance of each skill is calculated as a share of the total number of skills selected by each
respondent, and averaged across all respondents. For example, a skill is assigned a share of 100% if it
is the only one selected by a respondent, or 25% if it one of the four skills selected by the respondent.
PeriodSource: 2022-2023: World Economic Forum, Future of Jobs
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- Reskilling skill focus
This bar chart shows the share of surveyed companies that operate in the respective economy
or region that selects a particular level-3 skill in the Global Skills Taxonomy, based on responses to the
question, “Keeping in mind your current strategic direction, please select the skill clusters on which
you are focusing your organization’s reskilling and upskilling efforts in the next five years”.
PeriodSource: 2022-2023: World Economic Forum, Future of Jobs
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- Skill stability
This is the average of estimates of surveyed companies that operate in the respective economy
or region, based on responses to the question, “What proportion of the core skills required by your
workforce will remain the same?”, compared with the global average.
PeriodSource: 2022-2023: World Economic Forum, Future of Jobs
Survey- Training funding
This table shows average proportion of training funding among surveyed companies that operate
in the respective economy or region, based on responses to the question, “How will you fund the
majority of your training, upskilling and reskilling efforts in your organization?”, compared with the
global average.
PeriodSource: 2022-2023: World Economic Forum, Future of Jobs
Survey - Training type
This bar and table show the average proportion of training type among surveyed companies that
operate in the respective economy or region, based on response to the question, “In your
future reskilling and upskilling programmes, what proportion of training provision will come from?”,
compared with the global average.
PeriodSource: 2022-2023: World Economic Forum, Future of Jobs
Survey - Talent outlook in 2027
This bar chart shows the share of respondents that operate in the respective economy or region
who expect their talent availability when hiring, talent development of existing workforce, and
talent retention of existing workforce to improve or worsen in five years, and their net effect of surveyed
companies that operate in the respective economy or region, compared with the global average. It is
based on the responses to the question, “How would you rate talent availability, development
and retention in your organization in the next five years?”. Net effect is calculated by the share of
respondents who expect their talent availability to improve or improve significantly, minus the share of
respondents who expect their talent availability to worsen or worsen significantly.
PeriodSource: 2022-2023: World Economic Forum, Future of Jobs
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