Top drivers of job growth for professional service providers, 2015-2020, at July 2015

Published by Statista Research Department, Jan 18, 2016

This statistic shows the major drivers impacting upon employment outlook in the professional services industry and their expected effect on the compound growth rate between 2015 and 2020, as of July 2015. The growing middle class in emerging markets is expected to increase employment in the industry by 5 percent. The same amount of growth is expected to be driven by women's economic power and aspirations.

Major drivers expected to effect employment outlook in the professional services industry, 2015-2020, as of July 2015

Characteristic	Expected compound employment growth rate (2015-2020)
Overall	2.45%
Middle class in emerging markets	5%
Women's economic power, aspiration	5%
Changing nature of work, flexible work	4%
Processing power, Big Data	2.35%
Mobile internet, cloud technology	2.14%
Sharing economy, crowdsourcing	1.67%
Internet of Things	1%
Consumer ethics, privacy issues	0.71%
Longevity, ageing societies	0%

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Release date

January 2016

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Region

Worldwide

Survey time period

First half of 2015

Number of respondents

1,346 executives

Method of interview

Online survey

Supplementary notes

Figures are based on the Future of Jobs survey conducted by the World Economic Forum. The number of respondents was 1,346 people from 366 companies worldwide. Only countries from which a minimum of 30 unique data points could be obtained were included.

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