Job uncertainty pushes working professionals to upskill themselves through online courses

With layoffs, furloughs and paycuts rising by the day across sectors, many are panicking over their livelihood, and are taking to online learning during the lockdown to stay ahead of the curve. Working professionals, new graduates and even college students are scrambling to stay on top of their game. They have been upskilling themselves through online courses on ed-tech platforms to stay relevant.

Great Learning Academy has been seeing a 2X growth week on week, said Hari Krishnan Nair, its co-founder. The platform offers offers courses in data science, machine learning, artificial intelligence, cloud computing, among others, for free. It was launched in March 2020, by Great Learning, an Ed-tech company, founded in 2013.