Survey: Data Visualization And IT Support Become Very Important Technological Skills

Illustration of IT support (photo: Unsplash)

JAKARTA - In the Grow with Google event last Thursday, Google released a survey conducted by Economist Impact, about understanding the views of companies and industry experts regarding the gap in employee skills in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region.

The survey involving 1,375 employees in Asia Pacific (APAC), including 100 employees from Indonesia, companies and industry experts, revealed that, both companies or employees do not understand future skills and the best way to develop them.

In some cases, there are also differences in expectations between what the company wants and what employees see as important.

Understanding this gap is very important in realizing a workforce that is ready for the economy in the future This article-one of the 12 series of countries-split these various problems in Indonesia.

The main findings of this study are that Indonesian employees consider digital skills (60%) to be the main focus area for upskilling. Among all this, some basic digital skills are the main thing for 88.3% of Indonesian workers.

Then, along with equitable digitization, higher skills will be needed in each Employee country considering data analysis and visualization capabilities (56.7%), IT support (51.79%), as well as digital marketing and e-commerce (48.3%) are very important high-tech skills to own.

Further, the study also mentions that many workers have high expectations from their companies and believe that companies should support their development by providing information about skills (57%), through financial incentives (54%), rewards (43%), and support their mental health (35%).