UK business leaders committed to future-proofing workforces by 2020

Eighty per cent of UK business leaders are committed to a 2020 deadline to make drastic changes to business functions, research by Cisco has revealed.

The ‘Next Act’ research surveyed more than 1,000 leaders, highlighting the rapidly changing business environment and need for improvement of future skills.

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The research found that 55% of business leaders believe that they will need to change their employees’ job roles to keep up with changing paces.

Scot Gardner, Cisco UK and Ireland’s CEO says that “we are in an era of extraordinary change which is both catalysed and enabled by technology”.