Employees of Industry Enterprises in the Fourth Industrial Revolution: Evidence in Thai Nguyen Province, Vietnam

The Industrial Revolution 4.0 brings many benefits such as increasing labor productivity, thereby increasing the average compensation per month of employees by applying modern technologies to the production process, but also poses many challenges such as job loss and other social problems. The study examines the current status of employees’ quantity and employees’ quality. The research has used descriptive statistics utilizing numerical and graphical methods with the comparative method to show the situation in Thai Nguyen’s Industry enterprises, in Vietnam. The results find that the number of employees has increased and employee quality is improved, but employees in Thai Nguyen’s Industry enterprises still lack many skills to meet the requirements of the change in the Industry 4.0.