The vast majority of employees in Germany feel only insufficiently prepared for the challenges of the digital world of work according to a new study. Companies’ education and training opportunities are limping noticeably behind employees’ expectations, as reported by the “Trend Index” for the upcoming robotics and automation trade fair Automatic in Munich (running from 19 to 22 June). Only one-fifth of employees in Germany have the impression that their employers are pushing forward with the appropriate offerings.
The study questioned a total of roughly 7,000 employees in the US, Asia and Europe - including nearly 1,000 Germans - on their attitudes towards the influence of robots and artificial intelligence on the workplace of tomorrow. Only 16 percent of respondents in Germany gave their employer a top score of one or two for their training and education programmes. As a result, German businesses performed somewhat more poorly than those of other countries in the study. For the average of these countries, almost one quarter of employees found that such training opportunities had already been successfully established with their employers.
The Trend Index found that employees in China and the US above all expect a positive impetus for developing their professional knowledge about robotics and automation. About one-half of respondents in Germany, France, Italy, Great Britain and Japan said they hope to see more highly qualified and better paid jobs through teams of humans and robots. 80 percent of respondents in China and the US even said they assume that such jobs will increase in the future.
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