Industry needs thousands of extra employees by 2030

A new analysis, conducted by the engineering company Cowi for the organisation Industriens Uddannelser, estimates that 126,000 extra employees will be needed in industry by 2030 if the goal of reducing emissions by 70 percent is to be achieved. This is a startling number, says Lars Sandahl Sørensen, CEO of the Confederation of Danish Industries. “I get a little overwhelmed because I already know how huge the demand is for skilled workers in general at all ends and edges of our society. Both in the private and in the public sector,” he says.
     According to the analysis there will be a great need for blacksmiths, industrial technicians and mechanics. In many of the professions in industry, there is currently a shortage of employees, and at the same time there are many who will retire in the coming years. At the same time, the tasks are growing. A year ago, the same analysis from Cowi showed that 116,000 additional employees will be needed in the industry by 2030. But since then, several political initiatives have emerged, especially after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. /ritzau/