Source page: McKinsey & Company
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A skills shake-up
Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Jobs
August 25, 2023 – All this week, our daily charts will focus on one of the hottest topics in business: AI. We’ll take a closer look at the technology’s implications for growth, industries, the workforce, and more.
The adoption of AI has the potential to reshape the workforce, though many employees could be looking at reskilling instead of separation. According to a recent survey by McKinsey Global Institute partner Michael Chui, senior partner Lareina Yee, and colleagues, about four in ten respondents reporting AI adoption expect more than 20 percent of their companies’ workforces will be reskilled in the next three years, while 8 percent of respondents say the size of their workforces will decrease by more than 20 percent.
To read the survey, see “The state of AI in 2023: Generative AI’s breakout year,” August 1, 2023.
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Visual form
Two-donut comparison chart.
Layout / body structure
The visual uses a side-by-side layout, read left to right, with one ring for reskilling expectations and a second ring for expectations about workforce-size change.
What is being compared
It compares how survey respondents think AI adoption will change the share of workers who need reskilling versus the share of organizations expecting material increases or decreases in workforce size over the next three years.
Measurement system
The measure is percent of respondents, split into colored wedges around each donut so the reader can compare response buckets as shares of the whole.
Visible structure inside the graphic
Each donut is divided into multiple segments, the color ramp separates the answer ranges, and the paired rings are meant to be read as two linked distributions rather than one combined total.
Main takeaway from the visual
The shape of the two rings puts reskilling at the center of the story, while the much smaller workforce-reduction slices show that redeployment and retraining dominate outright shrinkage.
Key standout values or extremes
The strongest source-anchored numbers are the roughly four in ten respondents expecting more than 20 percent of workers to be reskilled and the 8 percent expecting workforce size to fall by more than 20 percent.
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