{"id":489296,"date":"2026-06-12T13:21:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T13:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/489296\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T13:21:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T13:21:10","slug":"some-german-firms-see-ai-reducing-need-for-degrees-ifo-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/489296\/","title":{"rendered":"Some German firms see AI reducing need for degrees, Ifo says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">FRANKFURT, June 12 (Reuters) &#8211; Close to 20% of German \u200ccompanies that use <a href=\"https:\/\/tech.yahoo.com\/ai\/\" data-ylk=\"slk:artificial \u200cintelligence;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;artificial \u200cintelligence&quot;}\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">artificial \u200cintelligence<\/a> are finding it easy \u200bto replace employees with university degrees with AI-enabled staff without a degree, a survey \u200cby German \u2060economic research institute Ifo showed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">\u2022 The survey \u2060also showed that about 15% of the companies surveyed \u200bdeemed it \u200beasy \u200bto replace experienced \u200cemployees with AI-enabled staff with less experience<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">\u2022 \u201cAI is transforming the world of work and in some areas can \u200ceven partially replace \u200bformal qualifications and \u200bexperience,\u201d \u200bsays Ifo researcher Anna \u200cRuffert<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">\u2022 Retail and wholesale \u200btrade \u200bcompanies signalled the highest readiness to make those staff \u200bswitches \u200camong sectors, Ifo added<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">(Reporting \u200bby Ludwig Burger, Editing by \u200bLinda Pasquini)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRANKFURT, June 12 (Reuters) &#8211; Close to 20% of German \u200ccompanies that use artificial \u200cintelligence are finding it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":489297,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[345,343,344,98522,226011,85,46,125,226010],"class_list":["post-489296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-german-companies","tag-ifo","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-technology","tag-university-degrees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}