Between 1980 and 2012, the number of workplace tasks requiring social skills jumped 24%, those requiring math skills rose just 11%, and tasks requiring routine skills have steadily declined, according to Harvard Graduate School of Education associate professor David Deming. While this may seem to indicate that you should focus a little less on math, that’s not necessarily the case. As Nicole Torres writes on HBR.org in her roundup of the research, people with both social and math skills tend to be winners in today's job market. But ultimately, having social skills allows a person to be flexible and adapt to changing circumstances at work, which is a huge advantage – until computers get good at that, too.
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