L&D professionals have a valuable and important opportunity to share the reality of workplace learning today. Honest responses will help benchmark current practice, shape future tools and resources, and inform national policy, making it vital that voices from across the profession are heard. Find out more about the CIPD research.
The CIPD Skills and Learning at Work Survey 2026 is open, and it matters that L&D voices are part of it. Since 2020 the CIPD have worked with Laura Overton, who brings 20 years of benchmark insight, looking at the links between learning innovation and business impact.
Laura comments that this is research is about systemic, robust data set on how L&D is really enabling the business and “gives strategic leverage for the L&D profession”.
This isn’t about polished aspirations or idealised strategy. It’s about the day-to-day reality of workplace learning: what organisations are working towards, what challenges they face, and how learning actually happens in practice.
The findings will be shared widely, inform CIPD tools and resources, and contribute to national policy work. So whether you work full time in L&D, part time, as a team of one, in a large function, in-house or independently, your experience helps build a clearer picture of the profession.
For L&D, this is a chance to make the work more visible, more grounded and more useful. The more honest the responses, the stronger the insight.
Take 15 minutes and add your voice
This survey will close on the 20th of May 2026
This is a Censuswide survey carried out for the CIPD
