AI may be wearing down the skills employers now value most, and a reskilling plan won’t fix that
Designing the Thinking Organization, a study with Oxford Economics, surveyed 1,500 CHROs and 8,800 employees in 28 countries. 60% of employees say skill erosion affects them directly, with critical thinking the skill most often said to be declining. 80% of firms have a reskilling roadmap, but those roadmaps teach new tools and do nothing about existing skills fading. 71% of CHROs call the ability to supervise, check and override AI output the most essential workforce skill, yet only 29% of employees rank judgment as important.
Leaders will judge people on whether they can catch AI’s mistakes, not on how much they use it. Only 26% of organisations clearly define which work is human-led, AI-assisted or AI-executed. Doing one core task a week without AI first, then comparing, keeps judgment exercised. IBM is a vendor, but the survey was run with Oxford Economics.
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