Working World 4.0 puts personal competencies to the test
Shortly before the Christmas tree and the turn of the year, the evaluation of the Future Work Barometer 2020-2 is available. 262 employees from SMEs (59%) and companies with up to 1,000 employees (41%) took part in this second round of the short survey conducted in cooperation with the Future Work Group, the FHNW School of Business and ORGANISATOR.
The Future Work Barometer regularly collects the assessments, experiences and needs of Swiss employers and employees with regard to the world of work 4.0. A first survey was carried out in the summer of 2020.
Personal competencies with a need to catch up
The results of the first Future Work Barometer conducted in July 2020 indicated a development potential of over 70% at management level, including in the area of personal competencies. More in-depth questions were asked about this in the second round of the survey in October. The result confirms or underlines the earlier findings: with 77% (a lot/very much), the respondents rate the need to catch up in the development of general leadership competencies as the highest.
Disillusionment regarding the degree of digitization
By contrast, there were revealing deviations compared with the first round of the survey with regard to the assessment of the degree of digitization of the companies. Whereas in July, 77% of the board members still rated the degree of digitization as high to very high, three months later a certain "disillusionment" has evidently set in here, because in October the figure is only 45%.
The white paper with the overall evaluation of the Future Work Barometer 2020-2 is available here via free download: www.future-work-barometer.ch
