Companies looking to reskill expose the jobs the pandemic changed most

Visual form

Stacked Bar / Stacked Column: business-function reskilling-importance bars.

Layout / body structure

Each business function is represented by one stacked vertical column. The segments divide responses into not important, moderately important, very important, and unsure, with functions arranged from lower to higher reskilling importance.

What is being compared

It compares how strongly leaders rate the importance of reskilling employees across functions such as legal, HR, communications, finance, marketing, quality, procurement, supply chain, sales, and IT.

Measurement system

Each stacked bar shows percent of respondents, with the response segments summing to roughly 100 percent for each function.

Visible structure inside the graphic

The very-important segment grows toward the right side of the chart, especially for procurement, supply chain, sales, and IT. Legal and HR have larger not-important or moderately-important shares.

Main takeaway from the visual

The chart shows that leaders see reskilling as important, but not evenly across functions. The pandemic changed some jobs more than others, concentrating reskilling urgency in IT, sales, supply chain, and procurement.

Key standout values or extremes

IT has the highest very-important share at 55 percent. Supply chain is 49 percent and sales is 48 percent, while legal has only 9 percent in the very-important segment.

Controls / sequence, when applicable

This is a static stacked-column chart; there are no in-chart controls to operate.

Companion media, when applicable

There is no separate companion audio or video; the reskilling-importance chart is the full visual on this page.