INDUSTRY REPORT 1998: An Overview of Employee Training In America

TRAINING Magazine's 17th annual Industry Report.



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Each year, TRAINING Magazine gauges the state of training and development in U.S. organizations with 100 or more employees by asking the people in charge of training to fill us in on some of the pertinent details: How much their organizations spend on training employees, who they train, and how they train them.



This year's report devotes considerable attention to technology - both learning to use it and using it to learn. In today's wired enterprises, how much of the training effort is dedicated to helping employees keep up with changing computer applications and systems? How are the Internet and corporate intranets affecting the way training is delivered to employees? The Industry Report supplies answers to these questions and many others.



1998 Highlights at a Glance.....



Total dollars budgeted for formal training this year by U.S. organizations: $60.7 billion



Fastest-growing slice of that budget pie: outside expenditures



Total number of people who will receive some formal training from employers: 54.5 million



Type of worker likely to receive the most training: salesperson



Of all formal training, percentage that takes place in classrooms, with live instructors: 70



Percentage delivered via computer in some way: 19



Of all formal training courses, percentage delivered by outside contractors: 31



Percentage designed by outside contractors: 39



Of all formal training courses, percentage that teach people about computers: 33



Percentage of computer-skills training courses that are taught by live instructors: 83



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* Due to the number of charts and graphs included with the 1998 Industry Report, this article is available as an Adobe Acrobat PDF file. To view/print the report, you will need Adobe's Acrobat Reader program. If you do not have a reader installed already, you can download a free copy from Adobe's website at www.adobe.com.



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