From cost to investment: workplace learning has new significance

There is growing evidence that employers are beginning to see workplace learning more as an investment rather than a cost. The shift in firms' perspectives on workplace learning has been driven in large part by a set of market pressures and incentives that have been bottled up until recent years. The key to unleashing these forces has been growing evidence demonstrating that employers benefit when they invest more in workplace learning. The roots and consequences of the information problem on workplace learning are examined, along with how it is being overcome through a new system of, and means for reporting, standardized metrics on workplace learning.