---
id: "entity-world-economic-forum-d34"
type: "entity"
source_timestamps: ["§ Reskilling Is a Change-Management Initiative"]
tags: ["research-organization", "skills-taxonomy", "future-of-work"]
related: ["concept-skill-taxonomy", "concept-half-life-of-skills"]
entityType: "organization"
canonicalName: "World Economic Forum"
aliases: ["WEF"]
canonical_url: "https://www.weforum.org"
sources: ["reskilling"]
sourceVaultSlug: "hbr-seg-reskilling"
originDay: 10
articleStem: "hbr-edu-34-reskilling-in-age-of-ai"
sourceUrl: "https://hbr.org/2023/09/reskilling-in-the-age-of-ai"
sourceTitle: "Reskilling in the Age of AI"
---
# World Economic Forum (WEF)

The **World Economic Forum** is an international organization known for its *Future of Jobs* reports and work on skills, reskilling, and job transitions.

In this source it is referenced as a provider of a standardized [[concept-skill-taxonomy|skill taxonomy]]: **HSBC adapted the WEF's taxonomy** rather than building one from scratch (contrast with SAP → [[entity-lightcast|Lightcast]]). WEF is also commonly cited in the adjacent literature for [[concept-half-life-of-skills|half-life of skills]] estimates around ~4 years. This entity note was added during enrichment to resolve the extraction's related-pointer to WEF; it did not appear as a standalone note in the original extraction.


## Related across articles
- [[entity-world-economic-forum-d51]]
- [[entity-wef]]