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Pearson’s Workera deal targets a big workplace problem: No time to AI upskill
Pearson has agreed to acquire Workera to help businesses assess employees’ AI skills and target training where it’s needed most.
Pearson, a global learning and assessment company, announced on Sept. 29 that it has agreed to acquire Workera, the AI-native skills platform used by organizations such as ServiceNow, Accenture, and the United States Space Force to verify what their employees can do and where they may need to improve.
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The announcement comes less than a week after Workera’s 2026 State of Skills Intelligence Report was published on Sept. 23.
The report found that nearly 70% of workers use AI regularly, but almost 60% have no time to upskill, suggesting business leaders and working professionals need to find more common ground on how to upskill for an AI-enabled world.
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Workera was already aiming to help organizations fill their AI skills gaps, and a partnership with Pearson opens new horizons for AI upskilling and education, especially in the workplace.
In an exclusive interview with ZDNET last week, Workera CEO and founder Kian Katanforoosh shared details about Workera’s latest program, Ambient, an AI-native skills assessment tool currently being piloted, with over 10,000 signups on the waitlist, which aims to measure skills in the flow of work.
“If you manage to merge work and learning, you’re effectively helping someone learn exponentially more than in the past. Today, with AI, we’re able to bring learning closer to work because AI understands unstructured data,” Katanforoosh told ZDNET.
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