In 2017, the European Commission estimated that over 1.2 million UK businesses were underperforming due to ‘insufficient digital awareness and lack of necessary skills’.
Back in 2015, the House of Lords stated that digital skills should be taught as the third ‘core subject’ alongside numeracy and literacy, and a Government report in 2019 found digital skills are becoming near-universal requirements.
What’s key is providing employees with a basic level of digital skill and creating the platform for them to progress. Too often, companies invest in expensive software and systems to improve digital performance and wonder why it hasn’t done what they thought.
FutureDotNow carried out research based on 20 digital skills tasks that industry and Government agree are essential for work, and the number-one missing skill was using digital tools in the workplace. Within education, 26 per cent are unable to improve their own or their organisation’s productivity using digital tools.
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