The pie chart illustrates the number of hours spent on four types of in-house training courses in a large financial company per year, while the bar chart compares managers’ and secretaries’ opinions about these training courses.
Overall, technical training had the most hours, while health and safety had the fewest. In addition, both groups generally considered training important for their jobs.
Looking at the pie chart, technical training took the largest amount of time, at 30 hours per year. Career development ranked in second place with 15 hours, followed by interpersonal skills at 10 hours. Meanwhile, health and safety training had only 5 hours per year. This was the program with the lowest number of hours compared to the other three, making it the least time-consuming.
Regarding workers’ attitudes, approximately 85% of secretaries and 76% of managers believed that training was important for their jobs. In contrast, managers were more likely to consider training useful for networking at 50% compared with around 42% of secretaries. Furthermore, approximately 67% of managers and 63% of secretaries viewed training as a good excuse for a change. However, there are still 10% of both groups who considered training a waste of valuable time.