Industry Profile Global Employee (millions, ILO estimates) 1 / 2 Energy technology and utilities 5.3 Trend outlook Global trends and their impact on job creation Technologies and their impact on job creation Trends most most likely to drive industry transformation and their expected impact job creation, ordered by net Technologies most most likely to drive industry transformation and their expected impact job creation, ordered effect (share of organizations surveyed) by net effect (share of organizations surveyed) Job creator Job displacer Net effect Global net effect Job creator Job displacer Net effect Global net effect Climate-change induced investments into adapting operations Power storage and generation -100% +100% -100% +100% 82% 79% Broader application of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) standards Climate-change mitigation technology (Alternative Energy, Greenhouse gases … -100% +100% -100% +100% 70% 77% Investments to facilitate the green transition of your business Environmental management technologies (e.g. pollution abatement, recycling) -100% +100% -100% +100% 70% 70% Consumers becoming more vocal on environmental issues Big-data analytics -100% +100% -100% +100% 55% 52% Increased adoption of new and frontier technologies Digital platforms and apps -100% +100% -100% +100% 39% 39% Broadening digital access Internet of things and connected devices -100% +100% -100% +100% 18% 21% Stricter government regulation of data use and technology Cloud computing -100% +100% -100% +100% 0% 10% Supply shortages and/or rising cost of inputs for your business Artificial intelligence (e.g. machine learning, neural networks) -100% +100% -100% +100% -11% 0% Role outlook Human-machine frontier Churn in five years Human-machine frontier 19% Five-year structural labour-force churn (percent) Tasks performed by humans and machines today and in 2027 (share of total) Global 23% Human Machine Industry Frontier Global Frontier Key roles for business transformation ALL TASKS Roles most selected by organizations surveyed (as either growing, stable or declining), ordered by net role growth, and their net growth and structural churn (percent) Now NET GROWTH INDUSTRY GLOBAL ROLES -50% 0 50% CHURN CHURN 74% 26% 2027 Forecast 22% 31% Renewable Energy Engineers 67% 33% 17% 12% Human Resources Specialists Workforce strategy outlook 15% 13% Electrotechnology Engineers Talent outlook in 2027 Expected change in talent availability, development and retention in the next five years (share of organizations surveyed) 15% 25% Project Managers Improving Worsening Global average Global average 13% 24% Technical Specialists Talent availability when hiring -100% +100% 64% 23% 7% 20% Mechanical Engineers Talent development of existing workforce -100% +100% 0% 86% 3% 14% General and Operations Managers Talent retention of existing workforce 15% 19% Accountants and Auditors -100% +100% 36% 32% Accounting, Bookkeeping and Payroll 17% 29% Clerks 42% 35% Administrative and Executive Secretaries 50% 42% Data Entry Clerks