Companies’ goals misaligned with workforce skills
Less than half of employees at companies in the US, UK and Germany have been informed of their organisations’ strategic goals and priorities for the coming year, a survey has revealed.
Learning platform Skillsoft polled more than 2,100 full-time staff in the three countries and found that only 48% knew their organisations’ priorities for the next 12 months. Of those who had been informed, only 40% were “extremely clear” about their role in achieving these goals, and just a third thought their skills strongly aligned with them.
Only 23% felt “extremely prepared” to handle future work-related challenges. A fifth identified lack of training and skills development as their primary work-related challenge in the past year, although 31% had received upskilling opportunities or access to new technologies such as generative AI tools.
The top work-related challenges in 2024 were exhaustion, cited by 39% of employees, decreased motivation or engagement, reported by 35%, and overwhelming workloads and responsibilities, also mentioned by 35%.