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Employees Favor High Tech Training
According to the Workplace Training Report from Knowledge Anywhere, employees cite the following reasons for choosing technology-based training over traditional classroom training:
- workplace flexibility, was noted by 49%
- the importance of self-paced training was mentioned by 26%, and
- 15% mentioned the swift delivery of materials to geographically dispersed employees
Despite these benefits, the poll found that only 60% of
companies are using a high-tech medium to train their
workers.
The survey also found that:
- 36% of respondents received job training by learning from their peers,
- 27% said they obtained additional training through off-site seminars, and
- 20% said they received training in classrooms
- only 11% said they gained additional job training through self-paced online programs
Respondents to the survey included 8300 executives and employees from 183 corporations.