May 2020
Preparing for the future of work is one of the biggest challenges facing policymakers, employers, educators, service providers, and unions. The Brookfield Institute’s Forecast of Canadian Occupational Growth provides a new tool for understanding how Canada’s labour market could evolve over the next decade, shaped by potentially disruptive drivers ranging from technological change to resource scarcity and an aging population. Ahead by a Decade: Employment in 2030 highlights key insights from this forecast, exploring how Canadian occupations may grow or decline relative to national employment over the next ten years. The interdisciplinary methodology behind this analysis involves foresight research, expert insights, and machine learning. This novel approach was used to create projections informed by each occupation’s skill, ability, and knowledge requirements, and by data gathered through six cross-country workshops.
