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State of Talent Development for Deskless Workers

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How have businesses responded to frontline staff’s talent development needs?

How have businesses responded to frontline staff’s talent development needs?

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Wed Jan 11 2023

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By some estimates, 80 percent of the US workforce is comprised of deskless employees—workers at factories, retail stores, restaurants, distribution centers, warehouses, hospitals, or construction sites or behind the wheel of freighters and delivery vans. While organizational leaders have been focusing on how to reskill and upskill office workers as they adapt to new technologies and market changes, how have businesses responded to frontline staff’s talent development needs?

By some estimates, 80 percent of the US workforce is comprised of deskless employees—workers at factories, retail stores, restaurants, distribution centers, warehouses, hospitals, or construction sites or behind the wheel of freighters and delivery vans. While organizational leaders have been focusing on how to reskill and upskill office workers as they adapt to new technologies and market changes, how have businesses responded to frontline staff’s talent development needs?

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Sources: The Deskless Report 2022 , Axonify and Nudge; State of the Deskless Workforce 2022 , Quinyx

Sources: The Deskless Report 2022, Axonify and Nudge; State of the Deskless Workforce 2022, Quinyx

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