The report acknowledged that many jobs in Australia – 26 per cent according to one OECD paper – will still be "significantly changed by technology, requiring different and new skills".
But as for evidence that robots were destroying jobs, the report observed that the total amount of work per person in Australia had been "roughly stable over the last five decades".
"Fears that labour-displacing technological progress and improvements in productivity would bring about a large drop in available jobs have not materialised," it said."In fact, productivity increases have been associated with more employment, particularly so in Australia."It said there had been […]
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