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32% of global CEOs expect a short-term increase in headcount

As more businesses adopt cognitive technologies to gain better customer insights, short-term headcount growth can be expected, revealed KPMG International's 2017 Global CEO Outlook.

Featuring interviews with almost 1,300 CEOs of the world’s largest companies, the report found that across certain roles, about a third of of Singapore CEOs (25%), of ASEAN CEOs (27%), and global CEOs (32%) expected a slight increase in headcount across certain roles, with a majority revealing that cognitive technologies will drive a short-term increase in these roles.

While it is no surprise that 69% of global CEOs expected cognitive technology to result in an overall increase in IT roles, interestingly, 52% also expected an overall increase in HR roles.

Chief technology barriers - KPMG

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