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22.4%
3 to 6 months
16.6%
6 to 12 months
20.6%
Over 1 year
13.6%
Machine share
Human share
Information and data processing
Performing physical and manual work activities
Looking for and receiving job-related information
All tasks
Identifying and evaluating job-relevant information
Administering
Performing complex and technical activities
Communicating and interacting
Coordinating, developing, managing and advising
Reasoning and decision-making
38.3%
44.1%
46%
48.5%
49.9%
52.2%
52.6%
59%
62.5%
67.4%
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1. Average share of displaced 
workers / Expected redeployment 
success rate of displaced workers 
/ Average skills instability among 
workforce
The share of workers at risk of displacement was 
calculated by computing the mean response of 
surveyed employers operating in this industry to the 
Future of Jobs Survey question: “What proportion 
of your global workforce do these employees which 
are likely to become increasingly redundant in your 
organization represent in the next four years?”
The expected redeployment success rate was 
calculated by computing the mean response 
from surveyed employers from this industry to the 
Future of Jobs Survey question “What percentage 
of employees with increasingly redundant skillsets 
do you expect to successfully redeploy within your 
organization after they have completed their reskilling 
programme?”
The average skills instability among the workforce 
was calculated by computing the mean response 
from surveyed employers from this industry to the 
Future of Jobs Survey question “Keeping in mind the 
tasks that will be performed by your employees, in 
the next four years what proportion of the core skills 
required to perform their roles well will be different”.
Period
: 2020. 
Source
: World Economic Forum, Future of Jobs 
Survey 2020.
2. Technology adoption in 
industry:
This bar chart represents the share of survey 
respondents from companies operating in the 
industry who indicated that, by 2025, their 
company was “likely” or “very likely” (on a 5-point 
scale) to have adopted the stated technology as