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How can green technologies affect the job market?
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Green technologies are not only changing what we produce, but how we work. In the short term, they tend to disrupt traditional job structures—especially in sectors like energy, manufacturing, or transport—where efficiency and automation reduce certain manual roles. However, this disruption creates new types of jobs in areas such as energy management, recycling systems, process optimisation, data analytics, or sustainability auditing. In the long run, the impact depends on how fast companies and regions can adapt their business models and training systems. Firms that integrate green and digital innovation early usually discover that sustainability is not a cost but a driver of new competences and value creation. The key challenge is not losing people, but re-skilling them to work within more intelligent, circular and data-driven production systems. What kind of new skills or roles do you see emerging in your company due to sustainability or digitalisation efforts?
In our company, sustainability and digitalisation are gradually transforming both processes and roles. We see a growing need for people who can combine technical expertise with environmental awareness — for example, data analysts focused on energy efficiency, specialists in circular production systems, or project managers with strong knowledge of ESG reporting and compliance. Digital tools also require new skills in automation, data interpretation, and cross-department collaboration, since many sustainability projects involve both IT and operations. What’s changing most is the mindset: employees are learning to see sustainability not as an external goal, but as an integral part of innovation and competitiveness.
Alice Reissová
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