ARE WE REALLy ready for the fourth industrial revolution? The World Economic Forum predicts that 54 per cent of the global workforce will need to be reskilled as soon as 2022 as more manual tasks become automated. At the same time, the UK government has been urged by the House of Lords Select Committee on Intergenerational Fairness and Provision to do more to promote lifelong learning and ensure that our young people are prepared for longer working lives. There's certainly plenty of work to do: in Iceland, 84 per cent of 55- to 64-year-olds are still working - in the UK, it's just 64 per cent. At the same time, millennials and Generation Z are looking for employers that will stimulate them with lifelong learning. They want more freedom over how, where and when they learn... but they expect employers to provide the framework, tools and materials from which to learn.
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