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A report by the Mckinsey Global Institute in 2017 indicated that 14 per cent of the global labour force, which translates to approximately 375 million people, need to transition to new occupational areas or categories and learn new skills all together to stay employed.
Very often and in recent times, people tend to associate the changing nature of the world of work to the CoVID19 pandemic but this report, which was released in 2017, way before the outbreak of COVID-19, noted that the world of work was fast changing already due to the upsurge in technology and automation.
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