Businesses throughout the UK continue to face extreme turmoil. During the Covid-19 pandemic, the uncertainty of regulations from week to week made it difficult to plan and prioritise. Now, with decisions in government changing hourly, it is understandable that businesses don’t know whether they are coming or going.
What is clear is that growth, throughout the UK and across all sectors, is important for the country to prosper on the global stage.
AND Digital’s recent research report, ‘The Nature of the Digital Skills Gap’, reveals that over half (61 per cent) of business growth depends on digital outcomes. Based on our estimations, this equates to £50bn per year across the UK economy, and more than £240bn between now and 2026.
What will be key to achieving growth is investment in people, of all roles, and this includes digital upskilling. It is worrying to find that more than half (58 per cent) of workers say they have not received digital upskilling from...