AI as a driver for productivity and labour market development – Reference to current PwC report

As part of our ongo­ing pro­ject on AI mon­it­or­ing for the tex­tile sup­ply chain – in col­lab­or­a­tion with our part­ner Dr Michal Gebert www.michaelgebert.de – we would like to draw your atten­tion to a recent report that may be of par­tic­u­lar interest to our joint work.

The ‘Glob­al AI Jobs Baro­met­er 2025’ pub­lished by PwC impress­ively shows how strongly the use of arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence is already impact­ing pro­ductiv­ity, qual­i­fic­a­tion require­ments and employ­ment trends.

Read press release at PR News­wire 🡥

Key find­ings of the report:

  • A fourfold increase in pro­ductiv­ity growth in AI-exposed indus­tries.
  • An aver­age wage premi­um of 56% for AI-related skills.
  • Employ­ment growth even in highly auto­mat­able occu­pa­tion­al fields.
  • A rap­idly accel­er­at­ing change in the qual­i­fic­a­tions required.
  • Glob­al rel­ev­ance across all eco­nom­ic sec­tors.

Inter­pret­a­tion and rel­ev­ance for our work:

The study impress­ively under­scores that AI should not be under­stood as a sub­sti­tute tech­no­logy, but rather as a cata­lyst for innov­a­tion, effi­ciency and new work­ing real­it­ies. It provides valu­able start­ing points for the fur­ther devel­op­ment of qual­i­fic­a­tion strategies, mon­it­or­ing con­cepts and industry-spe­cif­ic trans­form­a­tion paths – espe­cially in the con­text of glob­al sup­ply chains.

Gherzi Germany as a Strategic Partner

Gherzi Ger­many can sup­port tex­tile firms by provid­ing tech­nic­al con­sult­ing, mar­ket intel­li­gence, and innov­a­tion strategy devel­op­ment in this space. From fiber selec­tion and value stream design to inter­na­tion­al bench­mark­ing and go-to-mar­ket plan­ning, Gherzi helps com­pan­ies align their cap­ab­il­it­ies with the needs of emer­ging agri­cul­tur­al sec­tors.

Dis­claim­er

This inform­a­tion bul­let­in has been pre­pared by Gherzi Ger­many to the best of our know­ledge and pro­fes­sion­al judg­ment. It is inten­ded to provide gen­er­al stra­tegic guid­ance for the tex­tile industry dur­ing the ongo­ing PFAS trans­ition.

How­ever, Gherzi Ger­many assumes no liab­il­ity for busi­ness, com­mer­cial, or stra­tegic decisions made solely based on this doc­u­ment. All guid­ance provided herein should be viewed as dir­ec­tion­al sup­port and does not sub­sti­tute for a detailed, com­pany-spe­cif­ic eval­u­ation.

More detailed assess­ments, includ­ing oper­a­tion­al feas­ib­il­ity, fin­an­cial implic­a­tions, and tech­nic­al imple­ment­a­tion, can be developed with­in the frame­work of a joint pro­ject tailored to the respect­ive stakeholder’s role in the tex­tile sup­ply chain.

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