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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