UK businesses are being encouraged to let their employees learn and develop skills while they are at work.
The Chartered Institute for Personnel and Development (CIPD) says leadership qualities and giving feedback to a team are now needed to develop change in the UK.
"Old-fashioned skills" such as manual labour are no longer as important as three quarters of the workforce use computerised equipment, according to a report.
Writing documents, creating presentations and giving instructions to others are now the skills that are needed, according to Martyn Sloman, learning and development advisor at the CIPD.
He also said 50 per cent of the workforce regarded computers as an "essential part of the job".
"The first thing we do when we come into work is switch on our PCs - we can't work without them. That's an amazing change," he added.
In a 2008 report, Deloitte's Entrepreneurship found that the biggest financial investment for 27 per cent of the firms questioned will be recruitment and people.
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