Companies pay much attention to the development of employees’ knowledge and skills. According to the OECD, every year, 75% of enterprises with more than 10 employees provide training measures or activities to their employees. In European OECD countries, close to 10% of all enterprises’ investments are made in training, according to the EIB Investment Survey.

However, there has not been in-depth understanding of why, how and for whom enterprises provide training and of what limits training provision.

For greater clarity, the OECD conducted a study in five European countries (Austria, Ireland, France, Italy and Estonia) on enterprises’ training needs and strategies to increase the understanding of what policy interventions could support enterprises in providing more and better training to their employees.

Praxis was responsible for the data collection in Estonia. In autumn  2020, we conducted interviews in 20 medium-sized and large enterprises, involving managers, HR managers and employees, in order to find out how the training of employees is carried out. By participating in the survey, enterprises contributed to bringing their experience and views on employee training to policy makers.

OECD report „Training in Enterprises“. New Evidence from 100 Case Studies“