Is the Connected Worker the key to solving industry's skills gap?

Is the Connected Worker the key to solving industry’s skills gap?

Posted on 18 Dec 2019 by Jonny Williamson

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The rise of the ‘connected worker’ could help end the skills drain being accelerated by an ageing workforce, according to the boss of one of the world’s leading providers of industrial innovation technology.

An ageing workforce represents one of, if not the, biggest threat to industry. With 16% of the total EU workforce aged 55+ and around 25% in the US*, there is a real danger that decades of invaluable knowledge and experience is going to be lost as experts retire. PTC’s president and CEO, Jim Heppelmann, believes…

Is the Connected Worker the key to solving industry’s skills gap?

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