Appendix: Report Methodology This report is based on an analysis of the results of the edition of an extensive survey of Chief People, Chief Learning Officers, Chief Strategy Offices and Chief Executive Officers of leading global employers. Established in 2015, the Future of Jobs Survey has been instrumental in providing insights into the evolution of jobs and skills and the future labour market. It is a pioneering measurement tool that enables companies and governments to map their workforce planning for the next five years. Survey data is collected across economies and industries, providing a compass for private- and public-sector leaders who strive to ensure a better future of work for all. Survey design The Future of Jobs Survey 2024 builds on the methodology from the previous survey editions. Following survey best practices and informed by literature review, several questions were refined and new questions were added. The survey consists of five interrelated parts. Business Trends 2024-2030 focuses on the macrotrends and technology adoption. It also examines the organizations’ transformation barriers. Occupation Trends 2024-2030 identifies the roles and how these are expected to evolve up until 2030. It also studies how the macrotrends and technology trends contribute to the job growth and decline. Skill Trends 2024-2030 analyses the skills in demand and collects information on training programmes and employee reskilling needs and efforts. Workforce Practices 2024-2030 explores the talent strategies and talent-management practices in organizations. People and Technology assesses the automation and augmentation level at the job and task level, as well as companies’ approach to enabling people and technology working together. The survey is comprised of 38 questions and was made available in 12 languages: Arabic, Bahasa Indonesia, Chinese (simplified), French, Hebrew, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Turkish and Vietnamese. The survey collection process was conducted via Qualtrics, with data collection spanning a four-month period from May to September 2024.Representativeness The survey set out to represent the current strategies, projections and estimates of global businesses, with a focus on large multinational companies and more localized companies which are of significance due to their employee or revenue size. As such, there are two areas of the future of jobs that remain out of scope for this report: the future of jobs as it relates to the activities of small enterprises and as it relates to the informal sector. The Future of Jobs Survey was distributed through collaboration between the World Economic Forum and its regional survey partners, amplified by the World Economic Forum’s extensive network and its constituents. The survey is also the result of cross-departmental coordination within the World Economic Forum. The Forum’s Global Industries Team supported the report team’s efforts to collect relevant samples. For key partners in the survey distribution process, please refer to both the Survey Partners and Acknowledgements sections. Detailed sample design specifications were shared with survey partners, requesting that the sample of companies targeted for participation in the survey should be drawn from a cross-section of leading companies that make up an economy or region’s economy. The target companies were specified as the largest multinational and national companies, significant in terms of revenue or employee size. The threshold was set at companies with 500 employees or more as questions concerning job and skill outlook are most relevant for larger companies with a significant share of employment. The final sub-selection of economies with data of sufficient quality to be featured in the report was based on the overall number of responses from companies with a presence in each economy. The survey has arrived at a sample in which more than half of the companies surveyed operate in more than one economy, and a reasonable range of companies maintained a focused local or regional presence. The final sub-selection of industries was included based on the overall number of responses by industry, in addition to a qualitative review of the pool of named companies represented in the survey data. The final sub-selection of regions and income groups was included based on the headquarter locations of the companies. Future of Jobs Report 2025 January 2025 Future of Jobs Report 2025 97