8 Drivers Of Change – Technology

Attracting and retaining staff is of strategic importance to businesses across many sectors due to acute skills shortages. Technological advances continue both to create exciting opportunities and to pose serious questions over their impact on jobs and the potential to further exacerbate growing divisions in society.

Technological developments continue to advance at an unprecedented scale and speed, profoundly changing the world of work. The work of tomorrow will be unrecognisable (and in some respects unforeseeable) to many people today.

Automation and new technologies

The skills shortage has become more pronounced over the last year. Attracting and retaining people has moved to the top of many organisations' priorities, supporting those who favour the "not enough workers" theory for the future. However, pessimists continue to point out that the significant increases in productivity, a feature of past industrial revolutions which created wealth and grew the