Six out of ten Spanish workers believe that artificial intelligence will be beneficial

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62.7% of workers in Spain believe that artificial intelligence will be positive for their employment, as revealed by the HR company Randstad Workmonitor for the last quarter of 2018.

Specifically, more than 12.2 million professionals in Spain believe that artificial intelligence will benefit their employment during the next ten years, constituting a positive opportunity for their job.

"Artificial intelligence and its possibilities in the workplace have increased significantly in recent years, which has greatly increased the optimism of workers in the face of new technologies," says Luis Pérez, director of Institutional Relations at Randstad.

"In this scenario, the acquisition of skills and digital knowledge is positioned as indispensable for professionals," adds Perez.

In the international arena, the rate of professionals who trust artificial intelligence to represent a positive advance for employment in Spain (62.7%) is eight and a half points ahead of the European average (54.2%).

With the exception of China, the countries of southern Europe are the most optimistic with the emergence of artificial intelligence in the labor market. Italy (65.4%) is the country with the highest rate, followed by Portugal (64.9%), Greece (63.7%) and Spain (62.7%). These countries, together with Norway (54.8%), are the only ones that are ahead of the European average.

On the other hand, Austria (39.3%), Germany (43.5%) and Luxembourg (48.9%) followed by France (51.9%), the Netherlands (with the lowest confidence indices). 52.5%) and Belgium (54.1%).

Outside European borders, China is the country with the highest confidence rate in the emergence of new technologies (88.2%). With more than 36 percentage points of difference, are Australia (52.1%), Japan (51.9%) and the United States (47.6%), all of them also below the European average.

Nine out of ten employees want to train in digital skills

Spanish professionals have shown unanimity about the desire to train in digital skills. This is detected in the Randstad study, since 87.9% of the respondents have answered affirmatively to the question about whether they wish to train in this type of competence.

Randstad points out that Spanish employees do not show a unanimous opinion when deciding who is the person who should take charge of the training of professionals in these new competences.

83.2% say that the company should take charge of the worker's training in these areas. On the other hand, 64.9% affirm that digital competences would have to be taught in schools, institutes and universities.

This article was written and published in Spanish and has been translated into English via Google Translate. Click here to read the original article.

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