Category: Automation Impact on Jobs

Future Automation

Great for the robots, but what about people?. The Future of Jobs Report aims to unpack and provide specific information on the relative magnitude of these trends by industry and geography, and on the expected time horizon for their impact to be felt on job functions, employment levels and skills. Universal Basic Income may be our only way out. 133, Sector No. Learn about Azure Automation, a cloud automation service for process automating those long-running, error-prone, frequently repeated tasks with Windows PowerShell. In this talk about the future of work, economist David Autor addresses the question of why there […]

‘The Robots Are Coming!’

'The Robots Are Coming!'

The Robots Are Coming!: The Future of Jobs in the Age of Automation by Andres Oppenheimer

Published in April of 2019.

Will robots take all the jobs?What should colleges and universities do to prepare our graduates for the automation of cognitive work?How should higher education change in response to the new technologies, such as artificial intelligence and ubiquitous connectivity? The Robots Are Coming joins a growing list of books that attempt to answer these questions.From a purely higher ed perspective, the best of the bunch is Joseph Aoun’s 2017 Robot-Proof: Higher Education in the Age of Artificial Intelligence […]

Revamped Ford Chicago Assembly Plant Has 600 Robots

Revamped Ford Chicago Assembly Plant Has 600 Robots

Ford is still talking up its revamped Chicago Assembly plant that it invested $1 billion into this year. The investment opened up 500 new jobs and brought a bunch of new robots into the factory. Ford is talking about those robots and notes that none of the robots have displaced workers. The 600 robots are helping to build new vehicles at the Ford Chicago Assembly plant.

The facility has 5,000 workers, and Ford says that 500 new employees were brought on specifically for the robotic system. Ford has also trained some of its veteran staff to adapt to the new […]

Robots Moving Into Torrence Avenue Ford Plant In Sign Of Changing Nature Of Work

Robots Moving Into Torrence Avenue Ford Plant In Sign Of Changing Nature Of Work

CHICAGO (CBS) — Robotics can lead to greater productivity, but also disrupt what jobs look like in the 21st century. Hundreds of robots are moving into the Ford Motor Co. Chicago Assembly Plant on Torrence Avenue.

On Monday, CBS 2 Morning Insider Vince Gerasole took us inside the changing face of employment.

The real-life robots don’t look anything like R2-D2, but they are mesmerizing. After an investment of $1 billion, some 600 of the robots are now helping build new vehicles at the Torrence Avenue Ford plant.“I don’t think you’re going to find a more technical system in the world than […]

Behind-the-scenes work on skills policy detailed in election-tinged documents

Behind-the-scenes work on skills policy detailed in election-tinged documents

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announcing spending on the Canada Summer Jobs program in Toronto in 2016. (Aaron Vincent Elkaim/The Canadian Press) Top Canadian civil servants have been told that their departments don’t know what the jobs of the future will look like and that employers’ demands for skills will change more frequently.

The admission is in voluminous material prepared for deputy ministers as they get ready for the fall election and the prospect of a new party taking power or the Liberals’ being re-elected with new priorities.

A series of briefing notes and detailed, lengthy presentations show that much of the […]

Hard Choices For Emeryville Employers Facing Country’s Highest Minimum Wage

Hard Choices For Emeryville Employers Facing Country's Highest Minimum Wage

Denny’s waitress Fong Van Luben (R) delivers free Grand Slam breakfasts to customers February 3, 2009 in Emeryville, California. Emeryville’s new minimum wage of $16.30 per hour is the highest in the country.

That may be good news for waiters and cooks, but it means many restaurateurs and small business owners will choose between raising prices for customers or laying off employees.

One problem is that new hourly rate is just a baseline, according to Michael LeRoy, a professor with the University of Illinois’ School of Labor & Employment Relations,"Added to it they’ll have to pay social security taxes, unemployment insurance […]

High school students shunning summer jobs

High school students shunning summer jobs

The summer job, long an entry-level rite of passage into the working world for teenagers, is becoming obsolete.

Under pressure to bolster their college applications, more students are shunning the character-building, low-paying first job for extracurricular activities and year-round academics.

Out are summers spent perched on a lifeguard chair slathered in zinc oxide, schlepping clubs on fairways or stacking boxes in a warehouse. In are science classes, tutoring sessions or other resume-worthy pursuits, all aimed at giving students a leg up on the competition.Emblematic of that trend is Magali Ortiz, 18, a recent graduate of Northside College Prep, who spent every […]

Hard Choices For Emeryville Employers Facing Country’s Highest Minimum Wage

Hard Choices For Emeryville Employers Facing Country's Highest Minimum Wage

Denny’s waitress Fong Van Luben (R) delivers free Grand Slam breakfasts to customers February 3, 2009 in Emeryville, California. Emeryville’s new minimum wage of $16.30 per hour is the highest in the country.

That may be good news for waiters and cooks, but it means many restaurateurs and small business owners will choose between raising prices for customers or laying off employees.

One problem is that new hourly rate is just a baseline, according to Michael LeRoy, a professor with the University of Illinois’ School of Labor & Employment Relations,"Added to it they’ll have to pay social security taxes, unemployment insurance […]

‘Robotic process automation is the beginning, expect further disruption in technology and services’

‘Robotic process automation is the beginning, expect further disruption in technology and services’

White collar automation has been happening for a very long time. Robotics is a cool name for efficient software that has led to the creation of a new stream called Robotics Process Automation (RPA). RPA eliminates mundane and tedious tasks freeing workers to focus on higher value work. Since the 4-5 years of its evolution, RPA is now the buzzword for CTOs and CFOs as it delivers 30-40 percent savings and operational efficiency in the first year of adoption and continues to improve efficiencies thereafter. Some of the leading industries adopting RPA in the West are financial services, healthcare […]

All School and No Work May Be the New Normal for Teens

The summer job, long an entry-level rite of passage into the working world for teenagers, is becoming obsolete.

Under pressure to bolster their college applications, more students are shunning the character-building, low-paying first job for extracurricular activities and year-round academics.

Out are summers spent perched on a lifeguard chair slathered in zinc oxide, schlepping clubs on fairways or stacking boxes in a warehouse. In are science classes, tutoring sessions, or other resume-worthy pursuits, all aimed at giving students a leg up on the competition.Emblematic of that trend is Magali Ortiz, 18, a recent graduate of Northside College Prep, who spent every […]