Need to Upskill to Stay Employed. Don’t Look to Your Current Employer
In a rather remote corner of the internet news world, an article / press release appeared on Yahoo Finance that is worthy of consideration by those who are concerned with the potential of losing their job to artificial intelligence. It is natural to assume that if such disruption is imminent, that one’s employer would be eager to help their employees upskill and migrate to new, hopefully, more profitable work. Of all the areas of the economy, one would naturally think that “Tech” is the one space that would be heavily involved in upskilling tech workers for the future. Many headlines read that STEM related jobs and tech jobs in particular, which will be the hot, in-demand jobs of the future, would need workers.
Unfortunately, this piece published by KPMG seems to have popped that bubble. The title, Tech CEOs Hesitant to Upskill Workforce Despite Anticipated Impact Of Artificial Intelligence On Jobs: KPMG Report reports that only 42 percent of tech CEOs surveyed planned on large scale workforce upskilling in the next three years.
If the Tech Sector is not interested in serious upskilling due to job loss from AI, what will become of the all the workers in other, less in-demand industries?
Lets us know what you think.