Better workplace AI training could unlock $177 billion for the US economy by 2030, according to new analysis from workplace learning company, Mindtools Kineo.
October 2026: Fosway Group, Europe’s #1 HR industry analyst, has released its latest Fosway 9-Grid™ for Talent & People Success. The research shows challenging economic conditions continue to impact the talent solutions market. Over 40% of HR teams report economic pressures have significantly impacted their HR budgets. And yet, there is still vendor growth being shown in talent intelligence and workforce transformation solutions – who report both customer and revenue growth in what is otherwise a stagnating market.
UK survey links missed AI returns to skills gaps, with technology receiving greater spending emphasis than workforce capability.
Workday reports 40% of leaders expect AI to increase output from existing staff, while 28% expect headcount cuts.
US IT job postings rose 22.4% year on year in September. Demand for AI skills increased while tech occupation employment was flat.
Taylor and Vinauskaitė’s annual research follows L&D into everyday AI use, with early signs of a changing relationship with the business.
Revelio estimates 56,900 US jobs were added in September, while its AI tracker shows most measured task changes occur within occupations.
A third of UK organisations delay manager support until transformation is under way, problems emerge or managers ask for help.
PwC's survey of almost 50,000 workers finds access to L&D fell from 59% to 51% as workplace AI use increased.
Employers are recognising the potential loss of opportunities to develop essential skills as AI changes entry-level work.
Foundation Apprenticeships recorded just 160 starts to April as the CIPD calls for a guarantee to expand routes into work for young people.
Almost half of UK employers increased in-house talent development, while only a third collect data to identify skills gaps.
An unregistered guide for L&D and education leaders sets out what audio-first learning does well, what it doesn't, and ten questions to answer before committing.
New Mindtools For Teams gives smaller organizations, and teams within larger organizations, easy access to practical learning, management development, and AI-powered coaching.
More than half of under-18s assessed lacked essential digital skills, challenging assumptions about younger people's readiness for the workplace.
2026 Fosway 9-Grid™ finds the Cloud HR market resilient but experiencing uneven growth, with the value of AI still opaque Fosway Group has this week published its latest analysis of the HR technology market, the 2026 Fosway 9-Grid™ for Cloud HR. Overall, corporate HR investments are clearly prioritising business performance and profitability, business-wide AI adoption as well as ecosystem simplification, and whilst corporate goals are now more transformational, vendor momentum and growth does not yet reflect that shift.
Technology occupations grew by 86,000 across the US economy in August, while technology companies cut about 14,700 jobs.
Mindtools Kineo is shortlisted in five categories at the Learning Technologies Awards 2026, recognising work that is helping organizations build critical skills, strengthen workforce capability, and deliver measurable impact.
Portakabin highlights the training challenge facing UK manufacturers as skills shortages leave 55,000 long-term vacancies unfilled.
Four in five HR and talent leaders face challenges assessing AI skills as automation changes jobs and career paths.
US Gen Z knowledge workers rank professional networks and leadership experience ahead of AI skills for long-term career success.
Mindtools Kineo has been named one of Training Industry’s Top 20 Online Learning Library Companies for 2026, securing its third Top 20 recognition this year and reinforcing its position as a leading provider of innovative learning and capability solutions.
There is a familiar signal that someone may be looking for a new job: the sudden professional headshot on LinkedIn. A new profile picture is rarely the only change. Workers also revise their summaries, tweak their job titles and rewrite descriptions of previous roles. Sometimes they return to jobs they left years ago and change how those experiences appear on their profiles.
Analysis of 2,120 leadership assessments found a wider gap for women between self-ratings and feedback from colleagues.
Nearly a third of employers report hard-to-fill vacancies despite UK vacancies falling 10% below pre-pandemic levels, according to the CIPD.
Five US labour market indicators highlight continued AI upskilling, weaker demand for AI-exposed occupations and changing patterns of work and recruitment.
The UK NEET rate could reach 16% by 2030, with employers demanding more digital skills from young recruits, according to new modelling.
Ivy House to unveil flagship research at LEARNING LIVE 2026.
Regulated qualifications and clearer career pathways are seen as the biggest factors in helping care workers build long-term careers, according to new research.
Digital Learning Realities research finds learning systems struggling to keep pace as L&D shifts from content delivery to business capability.
Most employers are building AI literacy for current roles while delaying wider workforce reskilling, new research suggests.
Five US labour market indicators highlight continued AI upskilling, weaker demand for AI-exposed occupations and changing patterns of work and recruitment.
Research identifies a gap between AI knowledge and workplace application, with employers calling for more practical experience - Pearson and AWS study.
KPI tops UK searches for business acronyms, highlighting continued gaps in workplace business literacy.
Digital Learning Realities research finds AI adoption is delivering productivity gains, while more transformative uses remain at an early stage.
Artificial intelligence has become the catalyst behind the priorities for workplace learning teams, according to David Perring, Chief Insights Officer at Fosway Group.
No evidence of a tax haven brain drain, but software, AI, research and healthcare roles record higher outmigration from the UK.
Fosway Group, Europe’s #1 HR industry analyst, has revealed the headline insights from its annual Digital Learning Realities research, in association with Learning Technologies, the world’s leading workplace learning tech event. Now in its 12th year, the research explores how L&D teams are meeting the challenges of a fast-changing business and tech landscape.
Companies making the largest AI investments increased the share of entry-level workers in their workforce, while lower intensity adopters recorded a decline, according to new research from Revelio Labs.
Access Learning report reveals top challenges for 2026, including the role of AI, skills and human expertise.
Mindtools Kineo has launched its new UK Safety & Compliance Training Suite. This comprehensive collection of expert-designed learning experiences tackles ten of the most critical compliance challenges facing UK employers today.
Half of customer education teams describe their programmes as mature, but new research finds only 19% meet operational maturity criteria.
AI is transforming workforce performance and productivity and reshaping how work gets done. Organizations are racing to meet this potential – 88%* report regular AI use. However, most are still in the experimentation phase, with two-thirds* yet to scale AI across their organization. The challenge is no longer access to AI tools but helping people to adopt new ways of working.
UK employers report worsening skills shortages while reducing recruitment and largely overlooking young people outside work and education.
More workers are changing career paths as AI-related roles attract talent from research, analysis and engineering jobs, according to Revelio Labs.
New industry-wide initiative aims to provide definitive, anonymous data on L&D salaries, budgets, and team structures to map the reality of modern Learning Departments
L&D Free Spirits launches Freelancer Insight Survey for the third year running, continuing to support members and the People Development community.
Fosway Group, Europe’s #1 HR industry analyst, has released its 2026 9-Grid™ for Talent Acquisition, revealing a European hiring market that is cautious, fragmented and increasingly shaped by AI disruption.
Mindtools Kineo has been named in Training Industry’s 2026 list of Top 20 Learning Services Companies, recognising its breadth and impact across the corporate learning and development (L&D) market.
Two third of leaders would rather look certain and be wrong than admit doubt and get it right, new five-year study reveals • Certainty Theatre is costing the UK economy £20 billion a year, according to a new workplace report whose findings were stress-tested by senior economists. • Nearly two-thirds of leaders (65%) say they would rather appear decisive and be wrong than admit uncertainty and be right. The trend has remained consistent across five years of data covering 3,159 professionals in 25 organisations. • The pressure to project certainty is strongest below board level. Middle managers (72%) and senior leadership teams (68.9%) are most likely to admit faking confidence, compared with 46.8% of C-suite executives.
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Masterclass by the Uncertainty Experts, Wednesday 6th May 2026, shares explosive new research exposing the Decisiveness Crisis. Findings will include the that 65% of leaders would rather look certain than be right, even knowing it leads to worse outcomes. Attendees will walk away knowing how to dismantle false certainty, fast. “When certainty is rewarded more than outcomes, bad decisions become inevitable”, says Giles Smith, CEO at the Mediazoo Group.
London, April 2026: Fosway Group is pleased to announce that the 2026 edition of the AI Market Assessment paper for Digital Learning is now available for EMEA's learning leaders to download and review. In 2026, the Fosway’s research programme will interrogate the corporate experience of AI deployment more deeply, while still providing updates into the vendor market too, resulting in an extended series of unique public and private deliverables.
At Learning Technologies 2026, Mindtools Kineo will showcase its newly unified brand and the launch of its new digital skills offering. At stand F25, and across the two-day exhibition, visitors can experience new solutions, online demos, workshops, and thought leadership sessions. These signal a bold move to offering a fully integrated, end-to-end L&D partnership model.
The Environment Agency has won the Staff Engagement and Upskilling Initiative of the Year at the edie Awards 2026 for its Nature Literacy Programme, delivered in partnership with Mindtools Kineo. The award recognises the programme’s impact in building a shared understanding of nature recovery across the Environment Agency’s 14,000-strong workforce and supply chain, helping biodiversity considerations become part of everyday decision-making.
Fosway analysis highlights pressure on budgets, changing vendor roles and growing focus on skills and shared learning. Interview with Myles Runham, Senior Analyst, Fosway.
Fosway Group’s latest analysis of the digital learning market, the 2026 Fosway 9-Grid™ for Digital Learning, reveals a market experiencing its third consecutive year of economic stress. Flat budgets and greater scrutiny of the content supply chain are increasingly commonplace, coupled with AI changes that both expose and necessitate the need to change learning strategy for those in the vendor market yet to do so.
Mindtools Kineo is proud to announce its inclusion in Training Industry’s 2026 list of Top 20 Custom Content Development Companies. This prestigious industry recognition reflects Mindtools Kineo’s impact and innovation in delivering high-quality, tailored learning solutions for organizations worldwide.
A bite-sized news round up: AI heat reaches peak; L&D redundancies; AI skills; Training for uncertainty; Plus all the headlines from Learning News.
Fosway's report into the learning systems sector, published today, shows a market experiencing growth, innovation and challenges in 2026. Lead analyst Fiona Leteney joins Learning News.
2026 Fosway 9-Grid™ for Learning Systems sees a learning technology landscape showing both expectation and pragmatism as AI starts to dominate
The annual Work and Salary Report is out: Sharp rise in redundancies; Finding a job is taking longer. Interview with report author, Nick Jones from recruiter Blue Eskimo.
New EQ data finds internal friction and misdirected development, not AI skills, are slowing execution.
Building organizational capability depends on equipping managers with the right skills at the right time. Following strong uptake of its first Expert Skill Bite, Mindtools Kineo has launched five new bite-sized masterclasses to help managers learn from the best and to support organizations to strengthen management capability.
Sentiment towards AI remains the strongest signal in L&D, but enthusiasm has stopped rising; Clear top group of priorities points to how the profession is redefining itself.
Graduate job starts fall in the US, degree relevance declines, real starting pay hits a four year low.
Organizations are increasingly demanding facilitated learning experiences that allow managers to practise judgement, communication, and leadership skills. In response, Mindtools Kineo is launching its Manager Skills Workshops, delivered virtually, in person, or as part of a blended programme.
New employee experience research shows 36% of employees do not feel able to cope with their workload, pointing to sustained pressure at work.
Economic modelling finds that AI alone will not deliver expected productivity gains, with learning and skills development identified as the key constraint on value, potentially worth up to $6.6 trillion to the US economy, over a fifth of GDP, by 2034.
AI tools are advancing quickly, but learning and role design now determine whether organisations realise value or simply accelerate activity.
Analysts project sustained growth for digital learning, driven by scale, cloud delivery and enterprise demand.
Nearly 40% of AI time savings are lost to rework, with organisations that invest in skills and learning far more likely to realise real value.
Mindtools Kineo has today outlined a major step in its global innovation strategy with the launch of its AI Innovation Hub.
Young UK professionals face criticism, limited recognition and rising stress, shaping their early workplace experience.
Cloud HR learning modules failing to gain any significant share of the learning systems market. Part 5 of Fosway's 2025 Digital Learning Realities Research looks at ecosystem trends.
Most L&D professionals don’t think their learning systems are fit for the modern workforce: Part 4 of Fosway's 2025 Digital Learning Realities Research looks at delivering an effective learning experience.
L&D budgets continue to be squeezed with investment in learning under ongoing scrutiny: Part 3 of Fosway's 2025 Digital Learning Realities Research looks at L&D budgets and investment trends.
Part 2 of Fosway's 2025 Digital Learning Realities Research looks at priorities, strategy and execution.
Further cooling in US employment and slowing demand.
Organisational performance and profitability are now the top priorities for HR organisations, Fosway Group’s latest HR Realities research reveals
L&D professionals worldwide invited to share priorities and challenges ahead of next year’s report due out in February.
First of a new 5-part review of Fosway's annual research into digital learning. Part 1: AI in Learning.
New survey shows UK workers recognise AI’s importance yet are not pursuing training to prepare.
Fosway Group, Europe’s #1 HR industry analyst, has revealed the headline insights from its annual Digital Learning Realities research, in association with Learning Technologies, the world’s leading workplace learning tech event. Now in its 11th year, the research explores how L&D teams rise to the challenge of a fast-changing business environment and tech landscape.
A new tech skills forecast predicts a correction in AI investment and renewed urgency for workforce upskilling.
Data shows AI skills catching up fast, narrowing the gap with programming in employer demand but findings temper popular narrative that AI skills already dominate hiring.
Empathy is often celebrated as a leadership strength, the skill that builds trust, engagement and better teams. But what happens when there’s too much of it?
October 2025: Fosway Group, Europe’s #1 HR industry analyst, has released its latest Fosway 9-Grid™ for Talent & People Success. The research shows that a challenging economy is making for a cautious talent solutions market, pushing HR teams to reduce costs. And yet, many skills and workforce intelligence solutions are reporting strong growth, and AI continues to dominate vendor roadmaps and disrupt traditional talent management processes. It’s clear that in areas where there is strong business impact, there is still plenty of opportunity for innovation and expansion.
Global research from Mindtools and Kineo uncovers hidden biases in managerial decision-making and offers practical strategies to improve workforce outcomes.
New research shows a gap between leaders’ claims of a learning culture and workers’ experience of support for tech learning.
Training Industry, Inc., the leading source of information for corporate learning and development (L&D), is excited to announce the launch of the Training Industry Senior Leaders Program, a high-impact, cohort-based learning experience designed to accelerate the growth of L&D professionals into executive-level roles.
Workplace Engagement Report finds Gen Z hardest to engage, while managers face burnout and disengagement.
Eglė Vinauskaitė and Donald H Taylor join Learning News to present their 2025 research into how learning and development is using artificial intelligence.
Mindtools and Kineo are proud to have been shortlisted in four categories at the prestigious 2025 Learning Technologies Awards.
2025 Fosway 9-Grid™ finds Cloud HR adjusting to TA acquisitions, work redesign and skills strategy uncertainty
Learning Pool’s new report, Workplace Learning 2030: The Seven Shifts Reshaping How We Learn at Work, highlights the key trends transforming workplace learning over the next five years. Based on customer insights and industry data, the report identifies seven major shifts—from the rise of AI and skills-based development to evolving learner expectations, connected ecosystems, and data-driven impact measurement. The research provides practical strategies for L&D leaders to embed learning in the flow of work, personalise experiences, and link learning directly to business outcomes.
AI is now a central narrative in learning technology, but how much of it is substance and how much is marketing?
Understanding AI and the impact it will have on your market and business is one of the hottest topics in 2025. For learning leaders, that’s true too, but with a market dominated by AI hype and marketing noise, do you have the insight you need regarding AI today?
AI is now the biggest story in all the HR, talent and learning segments, with rapid growth in corporate interest and virtually every vendor having an AI-led roadmap. The market noise about AI is immense, but the story beneath that is opaque and uncertain; never has there been a greater need to provide an honest detailed market analysis of what is real and what is hype, as well as who is succeeding – and how. Crucially, the research programme ties together both corporate and vendor experiences, offering equal footing and deep insights on both sides, and resulting in a series of unique public and private deliverables from Fosway.
A new report from the Josh Bersin Company urges L&D leaders to abandon outdated models and embrace a fundamental transformation, placing enablement not training at the heart of learning strategy.
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