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Salesforce’s 2022 Global Digital Skills Index reveals a growing digital skills crisis. This article takes an in-depth look at the findings, based on what 23,000+ workers across 19 countries say about digital skills, including their impact on the future of work, concerns about job readiness, and the significance of continuous learning.

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The Covid-19 pandemic has undoubtedly been one of the most disruptive periods in most organizations' history. For instance, during 2020, GDP in advanced economies plummeted, with many businesses having to shut for prolonged periods, and nearly all having to rapidly adapt to the changing conditions.

Indeed, McKinsey recently argued that one of the few plus points from the pandemic was it reinforced the importance of building change capabilities within our organizations. As we begin to see some kind of normality returning to life, there has been an understandable desire to examine how we can better prepare ourselves for the future.

The pandemic has shattered antiquated assumptions about work design. Executives urgently need to banish remaining myths about hybrid work models and redesign work around a human-centric model to keep and secure critical digital-era talent and deliver business outcomes. 

Download our research to dispel hybrid workplace myths and learn realities like:

• If you insist on a return to fully onsite work, you risk losing talent.
• Human-centric design, featuring flexibility and empathy, is what drives productivity and engagement.
• Innovation is best driven by intentional collaboration, not in-person serendipity.
• There are ways to offer employees flexibility, even when location isn’t flexible

I am quite certain that distributed work is here to stay. Even Dr. Anthony Fauci at the US CDC is surprised at how long this pandemic is lasting. With the highly infectious Omicron variant becoming dominant in many countries, it does not look like it will be over soon. In a few months time, some people will have been working distributively for two years, not at their request, but having found new work norms to get things done. I have spoken to many people who will not go back to a carbon-intensive work commute.

Here is a review of some thoughts on distributed work throughout 2021.

2021 was a difficult but pivotal year for tech workers and employers alike. We’ve got mixed news: 2022 will likely continue to be difficult but perhaps a little more, well, precedented.

Glassdoor released four predictions for the workplace of 2022 Wednesday based on data it gathered from reviews, salaries and conversations happening on its site, as well as economic trend data. Here’s what the career platform sees in the workplace crystal ball.

Accelerated changes, driven especially by the health crisis, which has impacted worldwide, reaching economic and social sectors, has reinforced the relevance of technological transformation at each point of contact, and in turn generating a change in habits and behaviors, aspects that influence the world of work in the same way.

These changes impact the main labor forces, which already maintained an evolutionary rhythm, but which has accelerated so rapidly that it has proposed a high degree of uncertainty for both companies and candidates and has promoted the appearance of new trends.

For organisations, metaverses promise to create more realistic, and therefore more productive, immersive meetings made possible with 3D virtual reality headsets. Microsoft is already rolling out Mesh for Microsoft Teams to make online collaborations more fun and effective through helping people connect in less impersonal ways, for example, through sharing body language, having water cooler conversations and engaging more in team meetings.

In this video we look at the 5 biggest global shifts affecting every business, the 10 global technology mega-trends that will bring huge transformation, 8 consumer trends that will drive what services and products customer will buy in the future, as well as 8 key trends in relation to how companies operate and function.

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As the number of predictions for the metaverse grow, there is one unifying sentiment: Enterprises will need to be ready for the coming adjustments of work when it comes to utilizing the digital platform. Gartner, as part of a study, forecasts that in four years time, one-in-four people will spend an hour or more in the metaverse on a daily basis.

“Vendors are already building ways for users to replicate their lives in digital worlds,” said Marty Resnick, research vice president at Gartner. “From attending virtual classrooms to buying digital land and constructing virtual homes, these activities are currently being conducted in separate environments. Eventually, they will take place in a single environment, the metaverse, with multiple destinations across technologies and experiences.”

The tech talent shortage has been of serious concern to employers for some time now. But as the pandemic has accelerated digital transformation and emerging technologies continue to advance, the need for digital skills is becoming critical.

However, a new skills index from Salesforce indicates that many workers do not feel prepared with digital workplace skills that businesses need now and some believe they are lacking the resources needed to learn these skills.

To help you foster these skills and actively work towards mastering them, we are here to highlight 8 job skills that won’t be automated.

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Critical thinking is the analysis of facts to form a judgment. The key critical thinking skills are: analysis, interpretation, inference, explanation, self-regulation, open-mindedness, and problem-solving.

Since the pandemic hit, our concept of normal has been online. From purchases to planning, entertainment to communication and working, talk about a digital transformation! Enterprises survived the disruption through digital transformation. And the workforce is now coming to terms with the stark reality of accelerated digitization we’ve all witnessed. The realities being several lost jobs, the great resignation and career switches across roles, domains and industries. Today, more than ever the workforce needs to reevaluate their skills. This also requires them to prepare for job trends 2022.

What is the shelf life of your professional skills? According to research, not very long. In fact, one in three skills from an average 2017 job posting in IT, finance, or sales is obsolete due to continued digital innovation. If that stat doesn’t shock you, it should. The skills we have today are expiring fast, with some experts estimating their life expectancy at just two to three years.

While we can’t place blame solely on the global COVID-19 pandemic, it and other world events have accelerated us toward an environment of unrelenting business transformation and permanently pixelated work arrangements. Employers must now prioritize a more inclusive, purpose-driven culture through broader strategic skilling investments to retain and attract top talent.

As the world adapts to hybrid strategies – a mix of both digital and physical components – one possible working future that’s becoming increasingly hard to ignore involves the metaverse.

It’s a buzzword, yes, but it’s also a very real scenario for the future of work.

A metaverse is an artificial universe made possible by AR and VR technology. Imagine donning a VR headset and ‘attending’ a business event, meeting people and even presenting, as if you were there in person. Difference is, you’re there virtually while your physical self is at home, or in your office.

The Fourth Industrial Revolution is rapidly evolving the way we work – but what does this mean for the future of working practices, attracting talent and how we reward people?

Current trends in AI are nothing if not remarkable. Day after day, we hear stories about systems and machines taking on tasks that, until very recently, we saw as the exclusive and permanent preserve of humankind: making medical diagnoses, drafting legal documents, designing buildings, and even composing music.

Our concern here, though, is with something even more striking: the prospect of high-level machine intelligence systems that outperform human beings at essentially every task. This is not science fiction. In a recent survey the median estimate among leading computer scientists reported a 50% chance that this technology would arrive within 45 years.