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The premium skill now commanding higher pay for Asia’s graduates

They treat AI fluency as a daily discipline, but employers that lag risk missing the talent and productivity gains the market is already pricing in

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    • This gap exists because technology is moving faster than education systems and most corporate training programmes can keep up with.
    • This gap exists because technology is moving faster than education systems and most corporate training programmes can keep up with. PHOTO: PEXELS

    Kazunori Fukuda

    Published Thu, Apr 16, 2026 · 07:00 AM

    A SALES executive in our Tokyo office recently started restructuring his mornings around artificial intelligence.

    Before every client call, he pulls AI-generated summaries of the latest contact updates and sales notes, which are scattered across multiple systems. In the evenings, he experiments with new prompting techniques.

    No one instructed him to do this. He built the routine because he saw how it gave him a competitive edge.

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