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WEF Future of Jobs Report 2025 – Key Findings
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A major WEF survey-based report relevant to AI governance and deployment discussions; useful for understanding how AI capabilities are expected to affect labor markets and what policy responses employers anticipate through 2030.
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The World Economic Forum's Future of Jobs Report 2025 projects that AI, automation, broadening digital access, and climate transition will be the most transformative trends reshaping labor markets by 2030. It forecasts both job displacement and job creation, with technology-related skills (AI, big data, cybersecurity) and green roles growing fastest, while economic pressures and geoeconomic fragmentation add complexity.
Key Points
- •Broadening digital access is the top transformative trend, with 60% of employers expecting it to reshape their business by 2030; AI/information processing cited by 86%.
- •Climate-change mitigation ranks third most transformative, driving demand for renewable energy engineers and environmental stewardship skills entering top 10 for first time.
- •Economic slowdown expected to displace 1.6 million jobs globally, increasing demand for resilience, flexibility, and creative thinking skills.
- •Demographic shifts—aging populations in high-income and growing workforces in low-income economies—drive divergent demand for healthcare and education roles.
- •AI and big data, networks/cybersecurity, and technological literacy projected as the three fastest-growing skill categories through 2030.
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_**Broadening digital access**_ is expected to be the most transformative trend – both across technology-related trends and overall – with 60% of employers expecting it to transform their business by 2030. Advancements in technologies, particularly AI and information processing (86%); robotics and automation (58%); and energy generation, storage and distribution (41%), are also expected to be transformative. These trends are expected to have a divergent effect on jobs, driving both the fastest-growing and fastest-declining roles, and fueling demand for technology-related skills, including AI and big data, networks and cybersecurity and technological literacy, which are anticipated to be the top three fastest- growing skills.
_Increasing cost of living_ ranks as the second- most transformative trend overall – and the top trend related to economic conditions – with half of employers expecting it to transform their business by 2030, despite an anticipated reduction in global inflation. **_General economic slowdown_**, to a lesser extent, also remains top of mind and is expected to transform 42% of businesses. Inflation is predicted to have a mixed outlook for net job creation to 2030, while slower growth is expected to displace 1.6 million jobs globally. These two impacts on job creation are expected to increase the demand for creative thinking and resilience, flexibility, and agility skills.
**_Climate-change mitigation_** is the third-most transformative trend overall – and the top trend related to the green transition – while **_climate-change adaptation_** ranks sixth with 47% and 41% of employers, respectively, expecting these trends to transform their business in the next five years. This is driving demand for roles such as re
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