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The illustrations lucidly reveal statistics related to courses provided by a large company to its employees. The pie chart depicts the hours of training in a year; whereas, the bar graph reflects the responses of two groups of workers to these trainings.  Overall, there are 5 types of training provided by the big financial company which vary with regard to hours allotted. The responses of managers and secretaries to the training are also mostly unequivocal.

It is noteworthy that technical training takes up half of the hours spent on training in a year. Career development, on the other hand, is a far second with 25% of the total hours. Only half of this percentage is spent on the number of hours allotted to train workers to deal with peers and colleagues. Lastly, seminars concerning health settle at the bottom of the list, only occupying 5% of the chart—a huge disparity compared to the amount of time spent for technical training.

Managers and secretaries have an almost similar trend with respect to their perceptions towards company-facilitated seminars and workshops. A stark majority of both parties stand by the importance of such trainings to their job, as almost 90% of managers responded affirmatively and secretaries only about 5% short. The second most common response of managers is that training is good for networking at 60% while more than 60% of their counterparts believe that this is a good excuse to catalyze change. There is an exchange of places between managers’ and secretaries’ third response, with the assistants having 40% of respondents agreeing with the former reason while about 15% of managers agreeing with the latter reason. Finally, very few respondents claim that training is just a waste of time with 5% and 10% for managers and secretaries respectively.

In conclusion, technical training possesses a sizeable number of hours allotted for training in contrast to health history training which has the least.  Most managers and secretaries accommodate the trainings positively, as they believe that it is important for their work, while very few respondents claim that it is a waste of time.