This report analyzes key drivers that will reshape the landscape of work. It also identifies future work skills - proficiencies and abilities required across different jobs and work settings - that would be needed in the next ten years. Although each driver is important when thinking about the future, it is a confluence of several drivers working together that produces disruptive shifts that are likely to reshape the future work skills landscape.

The six (6) drivers identified in this report are: Extreme longevity: Increasing global lifespans change the nature of careers and learning; Rise of smart machines and systems: Workplace automation nudges human workers out of rote, repetitive tasks; Computational world: Massive increases in sensors and processing power make the world a programmable system; New media ecology: New communication tools require new media literacies beyond text; Superstructured organizations: Social technologies drive new forms of production and value creation; and Globally connected world: Increased global interconnectivity puts diversity and adaptability at the center of organizational operations. These drivers play a key role in determining the ten (10) skills that would be critical to the success of the future workforce. These are as follows: Sense-Making, Social Intelligence, Novel and Adaptive Thinking, Cross-Cultural Competency, Computational Thinking, New-Media Literacy, Transdisciplinarity, Design Mindset, Cognitive Load Management, and Virtual Collaboration.