AI skill levels drive workforce divide: PwC - CFO Dive

PwC released a survey on Tuesday finding a wide range of AI proficiency among workers and said the spread is creating new divisions in the workforce. The largest cohort of jobholders surveyed reported that they are falling behind colleagues who are more tech-savvy. CFO Dive reported the findings under the headline 'AI skill levels drive workforce divide: PwC.'

Pete Brown, Global Workforce leader at PwC, said in the report that 'there is a real risk that the global workforce is starting to move at different speeds.' The article attributes that quotation to Brown and identifies his role at the firm. The survey's central finding, as described, is that proficiency with AI tools varies widely across workers and that the variation maps onto a divide. The largest group of respondents placed themselves on the trailing side of that divide.

The article does not state the number of workers surveyed, the countries or industries covered, or the size of the largest cohort relative to other groups. It gives no date beyond 'Tuesday' and does not define how AI proficiency was measured, or what threshold separated the more tech-savvy respondents from the rest. No other data points — productivity figures, hiring data, wage comparisons — appear in the report to quantify the divide. The piece presents the split as one driven by skill levels, per its headline. The quoted warning frames the issue in terms of pace rather than any specific outcome.