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COVID-19, Manufacturing Skills Gap and the Connected Worker

Strategy Driven

By 2050, the world population is estimated to grow from 7.6 This aging workforce, coupled with a tight labor market, has resulted in critical skills and talent gaps impacting the ability of asset-intensive industries to recruit, train and retain a workforce with suitable competencies. billion to 9.6

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Mistaking performance for competence

TechCrunch

It’s something he’s promised to update at the start of every year until 2050, “as I will then be 95 years old, and I suspect I’ll be a little too exhausted by then to carry on arguments about why I was right or wrong on particular points.” Fair enough. We had to fight like crazy in Chicago in 2013 to get approval for that.