The State of Work The future of work is now 99 SAADIA ZAHIDI, AN Analytical Complex Innovation ECONOMIST AT THE thinking problem-solving WORLD ECONOMIC hat is transforma- Industrial Revolution), mass FORUM, SAYS THESE tive technology, production (Second Industrial SEVEN SKILLS WILL Wand how is it Revolution) and digitization BE IN DEMAND changing the way we work? (Third Industrial Revolution). Saadia Zahidi, the manag- ing director and head of the The skills of the future Centre for the New Economy e and Society at the World For knowledge workers, the Collaboration Active learning Economic Forum, describes skills required to succeed r the current era of work as have already shifted dramat- “a coming-together of dig- ically and will continue to u ital, physical and biological change. According to Zahidi, systems leading to the rise of the core tasks needed to s t Technology machine learning; the appli- perform the average job will l and design cability of technology across change by 42% over the next l u many different fields; and the three years. By 2022, that i creation of wholly new fields, is, nearly half of the average markets and sectors.” worker’s day-to-day duties will k look profoundly different. Zahidi has studied these e f forces within large multi- Demand will grow for skills national companies across such as analytical thinking, h Creativity developed and developing innovation, active learning, economies. She contends that creativity, analytical thinking, e s the current era has unfolded collaboration and complex exponentially faster than the problem-solving, while rote h f t previous three industrial rev- skills and easily repeat- olutions, which were defined able tasks will be shunted by mechanization (First off to automation. T o © SLACK TECHNOLOGIES, INC. 2019
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