The Reskilling Revolution

AI is already driving real productivity gains, but organizations only capture their full value - and grow - when those gains are reinvested in people through skills as at scale. No organization can deliver that alone. Through the Reskilling Revolution, Workday is partnering to expand access to accessible learning, skills-based pathways into good jobs, and hands-on experience for millions of people across the globe.

JD.com is proud to be the first Chinese company to join the World Economic Forum's Reskilling Revolution Commitment. With over 900,000 employees, we are blending our physical resources and digital strengths to meet diverse job needs, creating lifelong career development programs for office teams and state-of-the-art skills training for our customer-facing colleagues, so everyone in our company and the business can keep pace with today's fast-evolving world.

Skills development and lifelong learning improve the employability of workers, moving them into productive and decent work and helping to tackle inequalities. They also increase the productivity of enterprises through better quality and relevant training. The International Labour Organization welcomes the achievements of the Reskilling Revolution – another step in the quest for decent work and social justice.

The Reskilling Revolution was timely when WEF launched the initiative three years ago, and it is now even more urgent. On the one hand, technology improves people’s lives and creates a more connected world, on the other it contributes to growing polarization between those with the skills to take advantage of digitization and those without. As tech adoption continues at pace, increasing people’s employability and providing them with greater control of their prosperity and earning potential is critical to creating a future that is better for the many, not the few. 

Our research shows us that jobs emerging in the global economy span a wide range of professions and skills. They will provide opportunities for workers of all backgrounds and educational levels. But for all of the opportunities that the new economy will bring, the stark skills and gender gaps that exist today – especially in these fast-growing and emerging jobs – must be addressed now if we want to ensure that the Fourth Industrial Revolution is an equitable one. 

We are excited to partner with the World Economic Forum through the Reskilling Revolution initiative. As availability of digital talent continues to be one of the greatest barriers for enterprises to transform, organizations need to nurture a culture that enables talent – across disciplines and skills – to benefit from a continuum of lifelong learning that prepares them for the future of work. We are keen to help drive the transformation.