Advances in automation, artificial intelligence and robotics, while increasing productivity, will also cause major upheavals to the workforce.
As Governor, it is my responsibility to give students every opportunity to be fully equipped with the skills needed to enter Missouri’s workforce. It is also important that, when needed, Missourians receive the proper treatment services necessary to gain employment or further their education.
Your workforce is your most valuable asset. The knowledge and skills they have represent the fuel that drives the engine of business – and you can leverage that knowledge.
To continue to be the world leader in innovation, we have to retrain and ‘reskill’ our workforce over time and prepare our kids for jobs that don’t even exist today.
The fact that women represent such a small portion of the tech workforce shouldn’t just be a wake-up call – it should be a Sputnik moment. The tech industry is not America’s future; it is our present.
Just as we need a productive warrior force to carry out our national defense mission, our national workforce must be equally able to carry out our economic mission.
Zero-hours contracts offer an entry point for people who are either new to the workforce or have commitments that make it hard to work full-time.
If you have a diverse workforce, then you have a much better chance of picking up on things that a lack of diversity would hide from them.
Our emerging workforce is not interested in command-and-control leadership. They don’t want to do things because I said so; they want to do things because they want to do them.
