New Delhi: Digitisation is the new buzzword for Corporate India as 84 percent employees in the country said their employer has a digital strategy -- one of the highest in the world.


COMMERCIAL BREAK
SCROLL TO CONTINUE READING

According to the Randstad Workmonitor survey, globally, India scores high on this scale followed by China (81 percent) and US (73 percent).


The study conducted online among employees aged 18-65 working a minimum 24 hours a week in a paid job (not self-employed) noted that the staffers are well aware of the challenges that digitisation is likely to bring and agree that they currently perform a lot of repetitive work and/or routine tasks that could be automated.


"Around 87 per cent of the respondents said digitisation requires different skill sets against what is currently available in our workforce," the survey said, adding that "84 per cent of the respondents believe that they personally need to acquire more digital skills to guarantee their future employability".


The respondents are also upbeat about economic and financial conditions of the country.


Around 93 percent expect the economic situation in India to improve in 2017 while 89 percent mentioned that their employer performed financially better in 2016 than in 2015.


The survey further noted that the last quarter of 2016 saw the highest actual job switch in India as 47 percent respondents from the country said they have changed their jobs in the last six months.


This trend is reflected really high within employees in the age group of 25-34 years (57 percent) followed by 18-24 years (50 percent) and 35-44 years (46 percent).