Tech skills gaps are stopping projects in their tracks

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Most businesses wasted $250,000 or more last year because expertise didn’t match project aspirations, a Pluralsight report found.

Published Oct. 1, 2026

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• Nearly 7 in 10 tech leaders abandoned a project in the last year because their employees lacked tech skills, according to a Wednesday report by Pluralsight. The technology skills company surveyed 1,500 tech executives, technologists and learning and development leaders across the U.S., U.K. and Australia.
• When technology skills are lacking, companies often have to pay contractors or other firms to fulfill work, and companies may be wasting money on technology investments that they can’t use, Erin Gajdalo, CEO at Pluralsight, told CIO Dive in an email. Nearly two-thirds of tech executives said skills gaps have cost their organization $250,000 or more in the last year, the...

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