A third of New Zealand jobs to be automated away by 2036

A third of New Zealand jobs to be automated away by 2036

Meet your replacement, human. The next generation of workers is being readied to take your job Rural New Zealand is going to get hit hard by a wave of automation predicted to wipe away as many as 31 per cent of existing jobs by 2036.

Cities will fare better, a new report on the future of work forecasts, but that could force country dwellers to migrate to already crammed cities like Auckland and Wellington in search of work.

Gareth Kiernan of Infometrics, who unveiled the Megatrends report at the Industry Training Federation conference at Te Papa in Wellington on Tuesday, said […]

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