May 2023 Future of Jobs Report 2023 Conclusion The transformation of jobs and skills have significant categories, enabling targeted support and proactive impacts on businesses, governments and workers redeployment strategies (Chapter 3). While skills worldwide. It is crucial to develop insight forecasts, disruption remains high, it has somewhat stabilized identify the appropriate talent to promote growth, from the height of the COVID-19 pandemic and make informed decisions on managing (Chapter 4). And while companies continue to the significant disruptions to jobs and skills for identify access to skilled talent as the single biggest employers and workers alike. barrier to business transformation, expectations regarding workforce strategies show an increasing This year’s edition of the Future of Jobs Report level of nuance, pragmatism and proactive presents a mixed picture with regard to the engagement (Chapter 5). 2023-2027 outlook for the global labour-market landscape. Global macrotrends and disruptions This last point reflects a core tenet of the Future create an ever-more complex environment of Jobs Report since its inception: that the future for policy-makers, employers and workers to of work can be shaped for better outcomes and navigate, and uncertainty and volatility remain high that it is the policy, business and investment (Chapter 1). Thus, while, in early 2023, pessimistic decisions made by leaders today that will determine predictions regarding the jobs impact of the green outcomes and the future space for action. transition and generative AI dominate the media headlines, these areas have also been identified as Accordingly, we hope that this report will contribute some of the largest drivers of future job creation to an ambitious multistakeholder agenda to better by Future of Jobs Survey respondents (Chapter 2). prepare workers, businesses, governments, While the report finds – for the second time since educators and civil society for the disruptions to its inception – a net negative global employment come, and empower them to navigate these social, outlook, these displacements are likely to be environmental and technological transitions. highly concentrated in an identifiable set of job Future of Jobs Report 2023 61