Report Summary: Employee Training
Report Summary: Employee Training While working for Old Time Sweet Company, 84 percent of employees received some kind of formal training and 98 percent received some kind of informal training. Old Time Sweet Company paid for all training referred to in this survey. During the six-month survey period from May to October, employees received an average of 30.4 hours of training, of which 10.1 hours were spent in formal training and 21.3 hours in informal training. In other words, 70 percent of the training took place through informal instruction. Age: The youngest and oldest workers were less likely to have received formal training during the last 12 months than were workers ages 25 to 54. Workers 24 years of age or younger and workers 55 years of age or older received about half as many hours of total training as workers 25 to 54 years old. Full- or part-time: Full-time workers (35 or more hours per week) were more likely to have received formal training in the last 12 months than...
