MSN: We quit jobs to travel – now we’re facing a ‘job-apocalypse’ Two years ago. Joe Wilson, a 27-year-old engineer from Bristol, quit his mechanical engineering job. After spending 10 months travelling around Latin America – which he’d saved for a year and a half ...

Understanding the Context

Four Futures for Jobs in the New Economy: AI and Talent in 2030 explores how AI advancement and talent trends, and their potential trajectories until 2030, could transform the future of jobs and the global economy. The paper consolidates views and insights from chief strategy officers and other experts around cross-cutting risks and opportunities, and “no-regret” strategies to help leaders ... Four Futures for Jobs in the New Economy: AI and Talent in 2030 Technological change, geoeconomic fragmentation, economic uncertainty, demographic shifts and the green transition – individually and in combination are among the major drivers expected to shape and transform the global labour market by 2030. The Future of Jobs Report 2025 brings together the perspective of over 1,000 leading global employers—collectively representing more than 14 million ...

Key Insights

Frontier technologies such as AI are transforming jobs and skills. Here are the top trends to know at the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting 2026. When the Future of Jobs Report was first published in 2016, surveyed employers expected that 35% of workers’ skills would face disruption in the coming years. The COVID-19 pandemic, along with rapid advancements in frontier technologies, led to significant disruptions in working life and skills, prompting respondents to predict high levels of skills instability in subsequent editions of the ... These are the jobs predicted to see the highest growth in demand and the skills workers will likely need, according to the Future of Jobs Report 2025.

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