Digital jobs or those that are highly digitalized and those with low environmental impact increase their presence in the job market.
The green and digital demand It already represents 37% of job opportunities in the country, as digital (or highly digitalized) jobs and those with low environmental impact increase their presence within the job boards.
According to a report by Advice to which he agreed Ambitthe growing digitalization of the world of work as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic is one of the main factors of the transition towards employment models. growth sustainable.
In this sense, it is noted that the majority of highly digitalized activities are low environmental impact, since they make “intensive use of Information Technology (IT)“, which have “dematerialized” the work, managing to avoid the impacts associated with transportation and energy consumption.
From this, it follows that 94% of digital demand is also green in Uruguay, while 89% of the green demand is digital, meaning 37% of digital and green demand of the total job pool. For its part, 5% of the total corresponds to non-digital green demand, while 2.5% corresponds to non-green digital demand.
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The figures for digital and green jobs in the country
18.8% of jobs The country’s totals are digital, linked mostly to the YOU,while 20.7% become highly digitalized, covering scientific and professional activities.
For its part, only 1% of jobs are purely green and focus on actions aimed at the sustainable development, but 41% of job offers have low environmental impact.
This type of jobs requires 2.2 times more medium and high-skilled technicians and professionals, and teleworking modalities are 8.2 times more frequent compared to the remaining demand.
Source: Ambito
