An article on the ILM website explains that new research has found that a fifth of managers think their company is suffering from a skills gap because of the recession.
The Vodafone Working Nation report also revealed that it is women who are filling this gap. Apparently female workers are twice as likely as their male colleagues to report that they have had to learn new skills to make up for a shortage in talent.
However, the research warned that many firms are on a knife edge, with 70% of employers stating that further cost cutting would damage their business.
Firms that do scale back training schemes could find that their most talented workers walk out the door.
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Deciding who goes and who stays in a company can be a really difficult decision; and it only gets harder when you consider balancing the skills that everybody brings to the table. It really seems like employees are expected to have a broader range of skills, rather than being highly specialized in just a few. It seems like a good idea for companies to keep costs down, but it lacks the in the area of productivity. If people can focus on their actual jobs, they can be more productive. A solution for this, for example, would be to hire an IT company to handle the IT stuff, and then free your employees to do what they're paid to do, and not worry about the computers crashing.
Posted by: El Segundo Information Technology Services | Tuesday, 04 August 2009 at 05:42 PM