# Change of Competences in the Context of Industry 4.0 Implementation
## 1 Introduction
### The Future Work Force for Industry 4.0  
The Fourth Industrial Revolution affects the requirements of the current workforce, which will in many cases be forced to retrain, but it also affects the requirements of the workforce that is yet to come on the labour market in the future. The impact of Industry 4.0 will be that industrial job positions will decline and many of those positions will move to the service sector. The skills requirements of the workforce will change under the impact of these changes. There will also be a fundamental change in the requirements for education. Inequalities can already be observed today, which in many cases should have been addressed several years ago. Early identification of the need for changes in the educational structure will ultimately help the Slovak economy to remain competitive [16]. These conclusions were also agreed upon by experts, for example at the Skills for an Unknown Future conference. The scientific community is aware of the change in the content of professions: many professions are disappearing, and others are emerging and this is connected with the need for a person to change their profession several times in their lifetime [26]. Industry 4.0 therefore brings with it the need for a workforce to adapt to changing labour market conditions. The ability to learn and adapt to new workplace conditions and the new demands that employers will place on the workforce is coming to the fore [27]. Communication, creativity, technical literacy and learning will become key skills in the new conditions of Industry 4.0 [28]. It is estimated that labour substitution will threaten 55% of jobs in Slovakia [29]. In response to these changes, Slovakia will need to take steps to adapt to this major market shift [30]. The vision of Industry 4.0 will therefore have a major impact on the skills required in the labour market. The need to consider their social impact will become a necessity. These impacts will lead to new principles of work organisation, from changing the employer's role, to changes in the structure and skills that will be in the job description of most professions, which will be completely changed, and there will be impacts on the development of employment and unemployment, which will require a new policy framework for the labour market and education [31]. The need to improve the digital skills of European citizens has also been addressed by the European Commission, which has called on EU Member States to develop digital skills early at all levels of education and training and to promote quality digital literacy in schools, to promote the development of digital skills in adults and to address shortages in IT professions by adopting inclusive strategies. This is driven by the rise of automation, which will bring people into new areas of activity. Instead of manual work, employees will be tasked with controlling robots, for example. In the past, working with computers and modern technology was the job of only some professions, but today no one can afford to avoid it. We must also take into account the massive development of artificial intelligence, whose impact on the labour market will be so intense that 65% of today's children in primary education, after obtaining a diploma or degree, will in the future enter jobs that do not even exist today. Artificial intelligence will not only automate manual work, but experts say it will also change the type of work that employees do [26]. New professions are expected to emerge in the next 10-20 years as a result of the development of new technologies. In particular, they will be used in industrial practice [26]:  
* Expert in labour relations between people and machines--new demands will be placed not only on the workers themselves, but also on current and future managers. Managers will have to harmonise the functioning of people and machines in the company, for which they must, in addition to knowledge of HR and psychology, also have at least a partial knowledge of informatics or engineering.