Demand Grows for Sustainability Skills as ESG Sentiment Shifts and Regulatory Pressures Rise
24 Abril 2024 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
Latest data from Udemy highlights rising
interest in ESG and supply chain skills, alongside AI, language
acquisition, cybersecurity and tech certifications
Udemy (Nasdaq: UDMY), a leading online skills marketplace and
learning platform, today released its Q1 2024 Global Workplace
Learning Index, a quarterly report highlighting in-demand skills
that help companies remain competitive in a fast-changing global
economy.
The Index provides quarter-over-quarter data on trends in course
consumption based on the courses taken by Udemy Business customers,
representing 16,000 companies from various industries. By comparing
these trends with emerging skills gaps, Udemy identifies
opportunities to meet course demand while supporting organizations
and learners in an increasingly adaptive global workplace.
“More and more organizations are transitioning to a skills-based
approach for their workforce," said Greg Brown, President and Chief
Executive Officer at Udemy. “As organizations prepare to address
changing ESG requirements while building cross-continental teams
and keeping up with the pace of AI adoption, they must invest in
the right learning tools so their workforce can develop the skills
needed to get ahead.”
The Q1 2024 Index highlighted several emerging themes in
corporate learning, including:
- Continued interest in sustainability and supply chains.
Supply chain courses remained a top growth area of interest, seeing
a 29% increase in Q1. Specifically, sustainability within supply
chains and ESG-related topics continue to top the list of in-demand
professional skills. Less than half of CFOs are confident their
teams have the skills and resources to respond to changing
regulations on the horizon, driving investment in skills
development to understand new reporting requirements and meeting
investor and customer demand for sustainably responsible business
practices.
- GenAI continues to be in high demand, driving a need for
skills to build new models. ChatGPT was the fastest-growing
skill in 2023, with learners consuming 79 million minutes of
related course content. GenAI continues to be a trending course
topic, seeing a 21% increase in consumption in Q1 as the workplace
looks to find new and innovative ways to build AI into operations
with their models. They are also investing in AI deep learning,
which grew at a rate of 22%. Udemy sees a continuing trend of
learners looking to focus on how they practically apply AI in their
lives.
- The explosion of AI has led to a premium on cybersecurity
skills. GenAI drove a 135% increase in AI-driven social
engineering cyber attacks in just the first few months of 2023.
Information security course consumption increased by 22% as more
companies recognized cybersecurity as critical to mitigating the
risks posed by sharing data across different large-language models
(LLMs). One of the top courses driving GenAI skill demand was
specifically focused on cybersecurity.
- Language skills remain in high demand. The highest
professional skill learning area in Q1 was the TOEIC Test (38%), a
global standard for assessing English language skills, particularly
among business professionals. Many multinational organizations use
English as the primary language among their workforce, requiring a
certain standard level or grade on an English language exam.
Spanish language acquisition had the second-highest growth in the
last quarter, at 26%.
- IT certifications are in high demand for employees to stay
competitive. Data from the Q4 2023 Index highlighted the
ongoing demand for IT certifications. Udemy is among the largest IT
certification training platforms on the market, with 10 million
enrollments in the past year. This trend continued in Q1 2024, with
certification prep courses seeing strong demand globally. Notably,
demand for Amazon AWS certification training grew rapidly in the US
(140%), India (145%), and Australia (62%). Microsoft Azure
certification prep also surged globally (40%) and in Japan (85%).
To address continued demand, Udemy introduced the Integrated Skills
Framework in 2023 for the discovery, preparation, and demonstration
of skill-building in organizations through badging and
certifications.
“It’s encouraging to see leaders invest in sustainability skill
development at a time when consumers and stakeholders are
increasingly demanding better business transparency and ethical
practices,” said Peter Alkema, Udemy instructor and ESG expert.
“Skills like sustainable supply chain management and meeting global
ESG reporting standards have become paramount to successful
business strategy. Leaders who train their workforce in the
fundamentals of sustainability set themselves up for stronger brand
reputation and employee engagement, while also getting ahead of
potential risks and shifting ESG regulatory requirements.”
To learn more about how organizations can partner with Udemy
Business to upskill for the future, visit: business.udemy.com.
Methodology
The Udemy Global Workplace Learning Index uses data from
thousands of Udemy Business customers worldwide. Location data is
based on the country associated with the company. The skills data
compares the consumption of courses in the Udemy Business
collection from Q4 2023 to Q1 2024. Courses are associated with one
or more topics, with a maximum of five topics per course. The
trending skills that you see in the report are based on these
topics. If a course covers multiple topics, consumption minutes are
divided equally across all topics associated with the course.
About Udemy
Udemy (Nasdaq: UDMY) transforms lives through learning by
providing flexible and effective skills development and validation.
Through the Udemy Intelligent Skills Platform and its community of
instructors, millions of learners gain expertise in a wide range of
technical and professional skills – from generative AI to
leadership. The Udemy marketplace provides learners with thousands
of up-to-date courses in dozens of languages, offering a variety of
solutions to achieve their goals. Udemy Business empowers
enterprises to offer on-demand learning for all employees,
immersive learning for tech teams, and cohort learning for leaders.
Udemy Business customers include FenderⓇ, Glassdoor, On24, The
World Bank and Volkswagen. Udemy is headquartered in San Francisco
with hubs in Denver, USA; Ankara and Istanbul, Türkiye; Dublin,
Ireland; Melbourne, Australia; and Gurugram, India.
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