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Navigating the Now and Next: ManpowerGroup Advances Action Around AI and Workforce Readiness at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos

ManpowerGroup introduces SmartStart USA to equip 1 million youths with skills for advanced manufacturing by 2035 amid persistent global talent shortages, research shows 72% of employers struggle.

  • From January 19, ManpowerGroup will join the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos to unveil The Human Edge report and launch the SmartStart USA initiative.
  • ManpowerGroup says AI-driven disruption is creating a critical skills gap, with 70% of job skills expected to change by 2030 and 55% of employees reporting no recent workplace training.
  • Jonas Prising will join a live discussion with Janet Truncale and Max Tegmark, while The Human Edge report draws on surveys of more than 12,000 workers and 40,000 employers and finds 64% 'job hugging.'
  • Panels at Davos will press leaders on converting AI gains into shared prosperity, as ManpowerGroup urges leadership to avoid jobless growth and influence hundreds of thousands of organizations and millions of people.
  • Mounting workforce gaps put manufacturing competitiveness at risk as ManpowerGroup frames SmartStart USA to address this, impacting millions of workers and hundreds of thousands of organizations globally.
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Navigating the Now and Next: ManpowerGroup Advances Action Around AI and Workforce Readiness at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos

Bringing the Human Edge to AI Transformation, the global workforce leader joins world leaders to advance practical solutions and close the skills gap.

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Salesforce, a technology company specializing in CRM platforms, announced a collaboration agreement with the World Economic Forum (WEF) to enable the first assistant of Artificial Intelligence (IA) through the Agentforce 360 platform, which will give access to relevant information to the more than 3,000 world leaders who will attend the Annual Meeting to be held in Davos, Switzerland. This assistant, named “EVA”, will give access to the institut…

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