Future of Jobs Report 2025
World Economic Forum
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World Economic Forum |Jan. 26, 2025
Future of Jobs Report 2025, issued by the World Economic Forum in January 2025, examines how the global labour market will transform over 2025–2030 amid rapid technological change (especially Generative AI), the green transition, geoeconomic fragmentation, economic uncertainty and demographic shifts. It aims to provide an evidence-based outlook on jobs, skills and workforce strategies based on a survey of 1,000+ employers across 55 economies, and calls for an ambitious multistakeholder agenda to prioritize reskilling and upskilling, support worker well‑being and inclusion, and equip businesses, governments and educators to steer a more inclusive, future‑ready labour market.
Key Insights
- On current projections to 2030, structural labour‑market churn will equal 22% of today’s formal jobs, with 170 million jobs created (14%) and 92 million displaced (8%) for a net gain of 78 million jobs (7%).
- Broadening digital access is the top macrotrend (60%), while AI and information processing is the most transformative technology (86%), followed by robots and autonomous systems (58%) and energy generation, storage and distribution (41%), with climate mitigation/adaptation (47%/41%), inflation (50%), slower growth (42%) and geoeconomic fragmentation (34%) also shaping business transformation.
- By 2030, 39% of workers’ core skills are expected to change (down from 44% in 2023), analytical thinking remains the top core skill, and the fastest‑growing skills are AI and big data, networks and cybersecurity, and technological literacy, while manual dexterity, endurance and precision decline.
- If the global workforce were 100 people, 59 would need training by 2030 (29 upskilled in role, 19 reskilled and redeployed, and 11 unlikely to receive the needed training), with skills gaps the leading barrier to transformation for 63% of employers and 85% planning to upskill, while funding and provision of reskilling are the most welcomed public policies (55% and 52%).
- Employers’ AI responses include reskilling staff to work alongside AI (77%), hiring people to design AI tools (69%) and to work with AI (62%), alongside accelerating automation (73%), with 52% expecting a larger revenue share to go to wages by 2030 and diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives now in place at 83% of firms.
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