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Mandates without mastery: the AI upskilling gap that vendor dashboards hide

Corporate AI mandates — Google tying usage to performance reviews, Meta tracking AI-assisted output, Microsoft declaring it non-optional — now outrun demonstrable capability. Eighty-two per cent of organisations provide AI training; 59% still report a skills gap. The deficit is not access — completion certificates measure the wrong thing, and firms are applying one-time training models to a skill that demands continuous, deliberate practice on realistic tasks.