About 14% workers say their companies offer some sort of coverage or reimbursement for online skills and training courses, according to a recent survey by the Harris poll on behalf of Fortune. Over the past six months, 10% of workers say their employers have expanded or rolled out new coverage for reskilling opportunities. But do these programs really lead to new jobs and promotions? The short answer is that it depends. While companies are investing in skills-development training, hiring based on those courses hasn’t caught up in a big way yet. However, that’s shifting in this increasingly tight labor market as employers look beyond the job potential employees have on their résumé.
https://fortune.com/2022/03/08/more-employers-offering-skills-training-is-it-worth-it/
