A look at how a range of experts across Canada are thinking about the future of employment, as well as which trends they believe are most likely to create change.
https://brookfieldinstitute.ca/signs-of-the-times-expert-insights-about-employment-in-2030/
In French. Canada. Une Décennie D’avance: L’emploi en 2030
Africa is the youngest and fastest-growing continent in the world, which, in a few decades, will also have the largest workforce. While this trend creates unprecedented opportunities for the continent, it will also exacerbate the significant gap between the number of young people seeking work and the limited employment opportunities.
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/africa-in-focus/2020/02/05/young-africa-works-a-strategy-to-create-30-million-jobs-for-youth-over-the-next-decade/
Concerted and creative new solutions are needed to enable women to seize new opportunities in the automation age; without them, women may fall further behind in the world of work.
https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/gender-equality/the-future-of-women-at-work-transitions-in-the-age-of-automation
This report maps out how employment is likely to change in the future – including the implications for skills – and anticipates a number of new occupations.
https://www.nesta.org.uk/report/the-future-of-skills-employment-in-2030/
The European labour market is challenged by changes in the demographic composition of the labour force and by increasing work complexities and processes.
http://www.cedefop.europa.eu/en/news-and-press/news/skills-forecast-trends-and-challenges-2030
Artificial intelligence (AI) and automation will displace millions of workers in coming years but simultaneously create many new jobs that displaced workers will need to be trained to fill. By 2030, 400 million to 800 million workers worldwide, including 73 million in the United States, will be forced out of their current jobs by AI and robotics. The biggest challenge for HR in the next decade will be to provide training for existing workers so they can remain employable and to help businesses as they undergo transition.
https://www.shrm.org/resourcesandtools/legal-and-compliance/employment-law/pages/automation-revolution-retraining.aspx
Automation and ‘thinking machines’ are changing the skills workers need, while demographic changes promise a talent shortage, longer lifespans, and other significant shifts that will affect the workplace.
https://www.pwc.com/us/futureworkforce?WT.mc_id=CT4-PL400-DM1-TR1-LS4-ND30-TTA3-CN_MIT-Newsletter-Sponsor-MIT-ClockingInNL-06052018
Demand for technological, social and emotional, and higher cognitive skills will rise by 2030. How will workers and organizations adapt?
https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/future-of-organizations-and-work/skill-shift-automation-and-the-future-of-the-workforce?cid=other-eml-alt-mgi-mgi-oth-1806&hlkid=cb9abded8af24cf0b0ef77e87135a9d9&hctky=10377443&hdpid=a19bd4f9-16e4-4d2f-94f1-4eb3131423ec
In an era marked by rapid advances in automation and artificial intelligence, new research assesses the jobs lost and jobs gained under different scenarios through 2030.
https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/future-of-organizations-and-work/what-the-future-of-work-will-mean-for-jobs-skills-and-wages
By 2030, automation, globalisation and flexibility will change what we do in every job. To prepare young people for this future we must urgently shift our understanding of what it will mean to be smart in the New Work Order.
https://www.fya.org.au/report/the-new-work-smarts/
The study challenges a culture of risk aversion that holds back technology adoption, innovation, and growth; this matters particularly to countries like the US and the UK, which already face structural productivity problems.
By identifying the bundles of skills, abilities, and knowledge that are most likely to be important in the future, as well as the skills investments that will have the greatest impact on occupational demand, this report provides information that educators, businesses, and governments can use for strategic and policy-making purposes to better prepare us for the future.
https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/publications/view/2600
The UK economy is set to undergo significant change in the coming years. The impact of rapidly advancing technology, an ageing population and exiting the EU will leave our economy looking very different by 2030.
https://www.ippr.org/research/publications/skills-2030-another-lost-decade?utm_source=IPPR+weekly+newsletter&utm_campaign=126193d2a0-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_08_09&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0b30c067fe-126193d2a0-289247377
This report maps out how employment is likely to change in the future – including the implications for skills – and anticipates a number of new occupations.
https://www.nesta.org.uk/publications/future-skills-employment-2030?utm_source=Taskforce+Research+Mail&utm_campaign=ce6e207832-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_10_20&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_2a7dc8d67d-ce6e207832-167398133
In the next 14 years, countries must recruit 68.8 million teachers to provide every child with primary and secondary education: 24.4 million primary school teachers and 44.4 million secondary school teachers.
http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0024/002461/246124e.pdf
The United Nations has adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development aimed at transforming our world in the next 15 years. Within the context of this agenda, many of the topics addressed on the Global Skills for Employment Knowledge Sharing Platform (Global KSP) such as training quality and relevance, achieving gender equality in skills training, youth employability, and lifelong learning, among others, are at the centre of the development process.
http://www.ilo.org/skills/pubs/WCMS_437174/lang–en/index.htm
How can businesses manage their workforces in the skills-scarce world of 2030?
http://mckinseyonsociety.com/the-world-at-work-jobs-pay-and-skills-for-3-5-billion-people-2/
