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UK workers lack tech skills needed for their current job

As technology starts to make its way into more and more industries, in a bid to make jobs easier, it seems that many workers believe they don’t have the necessary tech skills to complete their role.

83% of British workers say that they rely on tech to do their job, however, according to the 2019 Tech Skills Index report released today by Docebo, two in five employees in the UK feel they don’t have the necessary tech skills.

The company surveyed 2,000 employed adults in the UK and US to gauge how they perceive new technologies; how qualified and confident they feel about using new tech at work and if they believed they have received sufficient training to leverage new tools.

The findings found that one in four (23%) of UK employees and almost one in five (19%) US employees say they don’t receive any tech training at all.

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