Future of Jobs Report 2025 | World Economic Forum

According to the Future of Jobs Report 2025 by the World Economic Forum, upskilling the workforce is the primary focus in employers’ people strategy by 2030, followed by accelerating the automation of processes and tasks, recruiting staff to meet emerging business needs, and complementing and augmenting the workforce with new technology.

With rapid technological changes, green transitions, demographic shifts, and economic uncertainties as key labour-market drivers it is estimated that while 92 million jobs will be displaced, 170 million jobs will be created, and 1.09 billion jobs will continue to evolve.

A significant shift is expected in human-performed work tasks, with a 15% decrease from 2025 to 2030. This drop is mainly due to increased automation (82%), alongside improved human-machine collaboration (19%).

Emerging and Declining Job Roles 📈📉

📈Fastest-Growing Jobs
Tech and Data Roles: Big data specialists, AI specialists.
Engineering Roles: Fintech engineers, environmental engineers.

📉Declining Jobs
Clerical Roles: Cashiers, administrative assistants.
Production/Design Roles: Printing workers, graphic designers.

For these roles, core skills such as analytical thinking, resilience, flexibility, and agility are deemed essential. Swiss employers predict a substantial rise in the importance of AI and big data skills (92.1%) and technical literacy (82.1%) by 2030.

Challenges and Barriers to Transformation 🚧❗

Key challenges Swiss companies expect to face include a skills gap (66%), resistance to change (51%), difficulty attracting talent (45%), regulatory issues (34%), and inadequate technical infrastructure (32%).

🤖⚠️AI Adoption Barriers
Obstacles include a lack of skills (50%), lack of leadership vision (43%), high AI costs (29%), and regulatory complexities (21%).

Strategic Priorities | How to navigate these Challenges? 📈💡

👷‍♀🤖Workforce Strategy
Businesses focus on upskilling (85%), automation (73%), recruiting for emerging roles (70%), integrating technology (63%), and transitioning staff (51%).

🎓🧑‍💻Talent Availability
Strategies include supporting well-being (64%), reskilling (63%), career growth (62%), better wages (50%), and remote work (43%).

🚀🤖Preparing for AI Adoption
Companies prioritize reskilling (77%), hiring AI experts (69%), organization re-orienting (49%), and transitioning or downsizing AI-affected roles (47%).