AI business ‘wake-up call’: teach workers or miss out
Many workers do not have the skills necessary to enter the artificial intelligence technology, a study found that only one of the 10 executives is sure that the labor force is ready for task.
However, the skill gap can keep some business back in the next two years, while some employees remain resistant to adopting AI in their roles.
The employment company Skillsoft published the findings of a large -scale survey on Thursday and said that a manager should serve as a call for a wake up for productive AI technology.
The research comes days later after the AI’s Statistical Office has become the fastest growing area for AI’s research and development investments, and Treasurer Jim Chalmers calls technology as a national priority.
Skillsoft’s 2025 Global Skills Intelligence Survey questioned 1000 Human Resources and Learning and Development Professionals in Australia, USA, England and Germany.
Only 10 percent of the participants said that they are sure that the labor force has the necessary training and skills to achieve their business goals in the next two years, and that they are sure of the biggest gaps in technology and leadership.
AI technology, which produces concern, is progressing faster than the educational training to be mastery, and a similar number (28 percent) (28 percent), said that lack of skills may prevent the pursuit of opportunities.
Findings, productive artificial intelligence, Skillsoft Talent strategy and transformation senior general manager Mark Onisk stressed a growing problem.
“I want to see this to business leaders … I want to see this as a call to wake up, where we will stop creating value for our shareholders unless it makes it a higher priority.” He said.
He said: “Organizations investing in long -term learning and skills have higher stock prices, they have higher earnings.”
According to the study, many employees were resistant to change, and 91 percent of the respondents suspected that workers exaggerated their AI skills, making it difficult for managers to say where education is needed.
Onisk said that the use of basic AIs, such as using demands to produce content, is not difficult for workers, but managers can unlock the more advanced AI results if they identified gaps and training to fill them.
He said, “This is an interesting enigma.”
“Most of them are leading to understand where the gaps are, and to have some idea about it and then to direct people to the right scaling opportunities.”
The Australian Statistical Office recently found that Australian enterprises have doubled their investments in AI in 2024 in 2024 in 2024 finances compared to 276 million dollars in 2022.
The Federal Government has not yet issued rules to manage the high -risk uses of technology and has committed a legal analysis before proposing laws.
