May 2023 Future of Jobs Report 2023 Preface Saadia Zahidi Managing Director, World Economic Forum Since its first edition in 2016, the World Economic 27 industry clusters and 45 economies from all Forum’s bi-annual Future of Jobs Report has world regions. This report would not be possible tracked the labour-market impact of the Fourth without their openness to contributing their views Industrial Revolution, identifying the potential scale and insights, and we sincerely thank them all. We of occupational disruption and growth alongside greatly appreciate, too, the support of our network strategies for empowering job transitions from of Partner Institutes, which have enhanced the declining to emerging roles. report’s geographical coverage, and our ongoing data collaborations with Coursera, Indeed and In 2023, labour-market transformations driven LinkedIn, which complemented the survey findings by technological breakthroughs, such as the with a range of unique and innovative data-driven coming of age of generative artificial intelligence insights. Our thanks also to the project team: Till (AI), are being compounded by economic and Leopold, Elselot Hasselaar, Mark Rayner, Sam geopolitical disruptions and growing social and Grayling, Ricky Li and Attilio Di Battista, as well as environmental pressures. This fourth edition of the the wider team at the Centre for the New Economy Future of Jobs Report therefore broadens its scope and Society for their input. beyond technological change to also consider and address the labour-market impact of a multitude of After widespread instability in the last three concurrent trends, including the green and energy years across the world of work, we hope the transitions, macroeconomic factors, and geo- outlook provided in this report will contribute to economic and supply-chain shifts. an ambitious multistakeholder agenda to better prepare workers, businesses, governments, Similar to previous editions, the core of the 2023 educators and civil society for the disruptions Future of Jobs Report is based on a unique survey- and opportunities to come, and empower them based data set covering the expectations of a wide to navigate these social, environmental and cross-section of the world’s largest employers technological transitions. The time is ripe for related to job trends and directions for the 2023— business leaders and policy-makers to decisively 2027 period. This year’s report brings together shape these transformations and ensure that the perspectives of 803 companies – collectively future investments translate into better jobs and employing more than 11.3 million workers – across opportunities for all. Future of Jobs Report 2023 4