More than 70% of companies surveyed consider creative thinking and analytical thinking to be the skills most expected to rise in importance between 2023 and 2027. Indeed, cognitive skills are the skills growing in importance most rapidly due to increasing complexities in the workplace. Technological literacy is the third skill most expected to rise, with almost 68% of companies considering so.
Skills expected to rise in importance from 2023 to 2027
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Net difference of share of companies expecting each skill to rise from 2023 to 2027
Responses represent over 11.3 million employees worldwide.
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The net difference is equivalent to the subtraction of the share of companies that expect each skill to decrease importance from the share of companies that expect them to increase in the next five years.
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