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31% -- share of workforce requiring retraining for global workforce (2025)

2025  · n=2,000  · IBM Institute for Business Value

31% of the workforce will require retraining or reskilling over the next three years, according to the IBM IBV CEO Study of 2,000 CEOs.

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IBM IBV CEO Study of 2,000 CEOs across 33 countries

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global workforce: 31% share of workforce requiring retraining. Source: IBM Institute for Business Value (2025). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/workforce-retraining-ai-ibm
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