Within an organization, the benefits of job aids are enormous. Job aids help workers to transfer skills from the classroom to the work-site. Training, in general, usually happens apart from the realm of work, and transfer is by no means guaranteed.

Job aids also help to reduce the length of training if the overall content, and more specifically, the objectives remain stable. The use of job aids efficiently supplements training, leading to an educated workforce with instant access to the information they need. Using job aids at a job site brings education closer to the worksite, thus benefiting customers in the long run by adding individual flexibility.

Other benefits include:

• Save resources by enabling less training or occasionally, no training
• Increase transfer of skills back to the job when oaired with training
• Reflect the shift from a separate and distinct training edifice to supporting workers where the work gets done
• Capitalize on emergent technologies, providing support as EPSS