Third of workers lack confidence in basic digital tasks, research finds
Spreadsheets were named as the most important workplace digital skill by 42% of respondents, but 29% were not confident using Excel or Google Sheets.
Almost a third of workers lack confidence in basic workplace technology, research from Adobe Acrobat found.
Spreadsheets were named as the most important workplace digital skill by 42% of respondents, but 29% were not confident using Excel or Google Sheets.
Creating PowerPoint presentations caused the most difficulty, with 32% lacking confidence.
30% were not confident in extracting or working with content in PDFs, while the same proportion struggled with online collaboration tools such as Teams, Slack and Google Docs.
File conversion tasks caused problems for 28%, while 27% lacked confidence signing and managing digital documents and 26% struggled to edit or format PDFs.
Search data also showed demand for help with these tasks.
Searches for “fill in PDF” rose by 23% over three months, while searches for “sign PDF” increased by 23.5%.
“Edit PDF” recorded 60,000 monthly searches and “remove pages from PDF” recorded 37,000.
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