Seventy-six per cent of employers are concerned about the negative impact of the skills gap on their business, the report said, adding that employers also reported compromised work quality and loss of revenue.

About 65 per cent of employers feel the skills that workers have are not matching the available jobs while 36 per cent of employers have positions that stay open for 12 weeks or longer.

As a result, more employers are investing in training programmes that would allow their business and employees to be more competitive.

Nearly nine in ten (87 per cent) employers plan to train workers who do not have experience in their industry or field and hire them in 2014.

Around 30 per cent of companies said they spend more than Rs 50 lakh a year on training while 15 per cent spend Rs 100 lakh or more, the report said.

The survey was conducted online in January 2014 and included a representative sample of 500 company managers (with responsibility for hiring staff) across industries and company sizes in India.
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