Dhaka, Feb. 3 -- The country's workforce notably lacks future job skills in digital and green technologies which would lower the productivity and competitiveness in the global market, stakeholders have said.

Many skills are getting obsolete at a faster rate while some new skills are replacing them in the midst of emerging disruptive technologies in the fast-changing today's world, they added.

According to a recent global report, employers today require a workforce with a skillset that did not exist 20 years ago. Artificial intelligence (AI), digital and green skills have all come to the fore.

Bangladesh ranked 61st, out of 83 countries, indicating its weaker position in terms of adopting new skills, according to the report styled 'QS W...