Upskilling | Businesses witnessing 'skills gap crisis'

Businesses are facing a skills gap crisis, due to failure to upskill their workforces, a new report published by skills body City & Guilds Group has revealed.

The research, which polled a total of 2,000 current full-time employees, claims that 75% of respondents agree that work continuous education is essential to success, whilst nearly half of those polled do not believe that they are getting the training they need to stay relevant in their field.

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All but 20% of those polled also believe that the education needed to adequately carry out their jobs will change over the next five years, whilst a quarter of all respondents claim that their management simply isn’t providing enough feedback on their skills.

Whereas all workers are affected by the issue, those over the age of 55 see a dramatic decrease in the workplace training offered to them. Nearly half of those polled claimed that they received no training at all in 2018. Those working part-time are also in danger of not receiving training, with 42% of those polled claiming to have not learned a new skill last year.