{"id":1000897549,"date":"2024-10-29T13:45:54","date_gmt":"2024-10-29T17:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goingconcern.com\/?p=1000897549"},"modified":"2024-10-29T13:51:59","modified_gmt":"2024-10-29T17:51:59","slug":"deloitte-survey-machines-are-taking-over-employees-to-become-even-more-awkward-and-uncollaborative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goingconcern.com\/deloitte-survey-machines-are-taking-over-employees-to-become-even-more-awkward-and-uncollaborative\/","title":{"rendered":"Deloitte Survey: Machines Are Taking Over; Employees to Become Even More Awkward and Uncollaborative"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Whose job is it to provide future workers with the interpersonal skills necessary to navigate the working world (and the world in general, really)? Is it their parents and community? K-12 education? College? Employers themselves? Opinions on that vary but what everyone seems to agree on is that these skills are crucial for success.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to a Deloitte survey released last week<\/a>, half of full-time workers at companies with a minimum annual revenue of $100 million surveyed are “very or extremely worried that the future generation of workers may enter the workforce without sufficient interpersonal and business skills.” Yeah, that’s already happening. See also: Big 4 Firms Are Noticing a Sudden Skills Gap in New Hires<\/a> and \u2018Lockdown-Damaged\u2019 New Hires Struggle to Socialize at KPMG UK<\/a>. All this time we thought the art of water cooler chitchat was a useless skill but instead it’s a dying one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many of those surveyed feel their employers focus too heavily on technical training and not nearly enough — or even at all — on human skills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Said Deloitte:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In a workforce increasingly leveraging both humans and machines, human capabilities play an essential role in career development, according to nearly 9 in 10 respondents across generations. Concurrently, respondents want their employers to prioritize a myriad of human skills, but teamwork and collaboration ranked at the top (65%), followed by communication (61%) and leadership (56%) more than technical skills like AI integration and data analysis (54%).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Employers: “Best I can do is a mandatory online learning session about ChatGPT prompting.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Above all, respondents believe these human competencies have staying power. Nearly all surveyed (95%) agree human skills are \u201ctimeless\u201d and always important. Yet, 70% of respondents report having worked at a company that pushed employees to learn a new technology-based skillset, only for that technology to fall out of use.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Some more key findings:<\/p>\n\n\n\n