95% workers want digital skills to adapt to job changes due to Covid: Study

But less than half the organisations have training plan in place, says report prepared by AlphaBeta and commissioned by AWS

Amazon Web Services, Inc (AWS), an Amazon.com company, released findings from a new research report showing that the need for digital skills training became more acute during the pandemic, with 95 per cent of workers in India reporting they need more digital skills. This includes the ability and knowledge to apply digital technologies for tasks in the workplace in order to cope with changes in their jobs due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

The report found that over the next year, the number of Indian workers requiring digital skills for their jobs is projected to increase by 27.3 million, representing 7 per