Fear of Skills Obsolescence Hits 58% of US Workers, With Sharpest Spikes in Tech and Finance
A new Harris Poll/ETS survey of 15,357 US adults finds 58% of workers fear becoming professionally obsolete due to skills gaps — rising to 74% among tech workers and 73% in financial services. Two-thirds say upskilling costs are hard to cover and 63% struggle to find time to learn, yet nearly 9 in 10 want employers to push credential-setting.
Why it matters
Read at HR Dive The "FOBO" framing gives capability builders a concrete anxiety metric to design reskilling programs around — cost and time barriers, not motivation, are the binding constraint.
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