The past three years have been shaped by a challenging combination of health, economic and geopolitical volatility combined with increasing social and environmental pressures. These accelerated transformations have reshaped and continue to reshape the world’s labour markets and shape tomorrow’s demand for jobs and skills, leading to diverging economic trajectories within and across countries, both in developing and developed economies.
The fourth industrial revolution, the changing expectations of workers and consumers, as well as the urgent need to achieve a green and energy transition, also reshape the sectoral composition of the workforce and stimulate demand for new occupations and skills. Global supply chains also need to adapt quickly to the challenges posed by rising geopolitical volatility, economic uncertainty, rising inflation and rising commodity prices.
Like previous editions, the 2023 Future of Jobs Report provides information on these transformations and how companies expect to cope with these changes in the labour market from 2023 to 2027, building on a single cross-sectoral and global survey.
This report is structured as follows:
- Chapter 1 analyses the global labour market landscape in early 2023.
- Chapter 2 looks at how the main macro-trends are expected to transform this landscape in 2023-2027.
- Chapters 3 and 4 then discuss the overall job and skills outlook for 2023-2027.
- Chapter 5 analyses emerging labour and talent strategies in response to these trends.
In addition, the 2023 Future of Jobs Report presents a comprehensive set of economic, industrial and – for the first time – qualification profiles. User guides are made available for each of these profiles to support their use as practical and stand-alone tools. Finally, the annexes to the report provide an overview of the survey methodology in the report and detailed sectoral breakdowns of the five-year perspectives on macrotrends, technology uptake and skills.