1999 Industry Report

TRAINING Magazine's 18th annual Industry Report.

An overview of employer-sponsored training in the United States.



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Welcome to TRAINING Magazine's 18th annual Industry Report, the last of this century. In it you will find the most comprehensive and authoritative information available anywhere about the extent and nature of employer-sponsored training in the United States.



Each year, we gauge 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.



The following is an excerpt from the 24-page Industry Report 1999...



1999 Training Budgets

In 1999, training budgets crept up to $62.5 billion. That means U.S. organizations with 100 or more employees will spend 3 percent more for formal training than they did last year. Salaries budgeted for internal training staff underwent a similarly slim increase (2.4 percent), while outside training expenditures—the amount corporate America spends on training products and services—increased by 4.9 percent over 1998.



The projections and estimates of training budgets refer only to direct costs. They do not account for the enormous hidden expense of employee training: the value of the salaries people are paid while they're engaged in training instead of working at their jobs. Ninety percent of all corporate and government training occurs on paid time. That translates into a huge investment by employers, one our report makes no attempt to measure.



In reality, employer-sponsored training is like a great jellyfish, with tendrils stretching almost infinitely in all directions. Our Industry Report describes only the body of the jellyfish, the part we can measure with some confidence, recording changes from year to year.



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1999 Highlights at a Glance



Total dollars budgeted for formal training this year by U.S. organizations: $62.5 billion



Of that sum, amount that will go to outside providers of training products and services: $15 billion



Percentage of U.S. organizations that teach employees to use computer applications: 95



Percentage that pay to teach some employees a foreign language: 28



Percentage that will send some employees to an outdoor experiential program: 9



Of all formal training, percentage currently delivered via computer: 14



Of all training delivered online, percentage in which the student interacts online with other humans: 36



Of all formal training, percentage devoted to teaching computer skills: 33



Of all computer-skills training, percentage delivered in a classroom, by live instructors: 74



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