{"id":40522,"date":"2022-11-24T21:31:38","date_gmt":"2022-11-24T21:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.totara.fortyapp.com\/articles\/how-the-energy-industry-is-turning-to-a-lean-skilled-and-engaged-workforce\/"},"modified":"2024-08-02T20:48:55","modified_gmt":"2024-08-02T20:48:55","slug":"how-the-energy-industry-is-turning-to-a-lean-skilled-and-engaged-workforce","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/staging.totara.fortyapp.com\/us\/articles\/how-the-energy-industry-is-turning-to-a-lean-skilled-and-engaged-workforce\/","title":{"rendered":"How The Energy Industry Is Turning To A Lean, Skilled and Engaged Workforce"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The energy industry was an early advocate of the digital transformation, particularly in the oil and gas sector with projects often stretching into the $10s of millions.From the first artificial intelligence platform<\/a>, to big data increasing outputs from solar energy<\/a>; significant investment is now being made to embrace the digital future across the board, and this extends to training.Following the oil price downturn in 2015, major oil and gas organisations made significant reductions in both recruitment and training. Increasing scrutiny was placed on optimisation and an emphasis was placed on a skilled, highly competent, \u2018lean\u2019 workforce.This presented challenges of its own and contributed to a significant loss of skilled middle career expertise and knowledge within the industry, which would have usually trained the next generation of energy scientists.As training providers adapted to these new limitations and operating in a \u2018leaner for longer\u2019 market, a new demand materialised alongside with increasing urgency. In the past five years, the transition to a lower carbon future has seen rapid acceleration, changing the skill requirements needed in the sector.A recent OPITOS\u2019s Skill Landscape report<\/a> estimated that some 80% of the current workforce would still be in the industry by 2025. The investment required to retain these skills, upskill and reskill represents a substantial opportunity as the industry acclimatises to these new technologies.The report also concludes that the way in which the workforce wants to learn and develop new skills has changed. With the introduction of virtual and augmented reality, simulation and situational analysis, delivered in short, structured \u2018bite-sized\u2019 learnings, are now the preferred learning methods.<\/p>\n