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One in four workers don’t feel adequately trained to do their jobs
16 February 2022 Workplace Culture
One in four UK employees feel they haven’t received sufficient training to succeed in their roles.
New research by LMS provider Digits suggests that only 73% of employees are confident that they have been properly trained to do their jobs.
As many as one in six (16%) employees are unsure they’ve received enough training, and one in ten (11%) are of the opinion that they haven’t been adequately trained.
Around half (47%) of the 1,001 British adults surveyed say that they didn’t receive any training and development from their employer in 2021, while for nearly a fifth (17%) of people it’s been three years or more.
When considering their most recent workplace training, only two-thirds say that their employer set aside enough time to enable them to complete it.
Around one in four (24%) say their normal workload wasn’t reduced to enable sufficient time and headspace to do the training with one in ten (12%) were expected to undertake the training in their free time.
Nearly a third of people (28%) say they wouldn’t apply for a job with an employer that doesn’t invest in L&D/training.
Around the same number (31%) say they have, or would, leave a job if an employer changed or stopped its L&D initiatives.
Bradley Burgoyne, head of talent at Digits, says:
People may be highly qualified, uniquely skilled and experienced but they don’t necessarily always feel that way every day.
“Even people who have been in a job for years need regular training and development to support them and help them continue to grow in their role.
“It shouldn’t be a perk but an integral part of our working life.
“While access to good workplace training is proven to enhance skillsets it also, importantly, can reinforce people’s confidence in their own abilities – positively impacting their productivity, engagement and job satisfaction.
“Reskilling and upskilling employees – opening career development and job mobility opportunities to existing workers – is one of the best ways to future-proof your organisation, fill skills gaps, and retain and attract top talent.
“Not investing in employee training, on the other hand, can have the opposite effect and ripple across an entire organisation.
“The risks for employers who don’t, can go way beyond low employee morale and increased staff turnover, and lead to costly errors and even accidents at work.”