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Automated manufacturing helps Northern California firms do more with shallow labor pool

Automated manufacturing helps Northern California firms do more with shallow labor pool

The world of work increasingly will be automated, from the “internet of things” interconnecting management with production equipment such as industrial robots. Here’s a look inside a local company that is incorporating advances in such bots to expand sales without losing its workforce.

“When automation comes in, people are nervous,” said Jim Happ, president of Labcon North America, based in Petaluma. “And you just have to keep reassuring them until they see that it makes their life better, that they actually have the potential to make more money because they’re doing higher-value work.”

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Emerging trends that will shape HR in 2020

Emerging trends that will shape HR in 2020

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oday employees work more productively than ever before. Let’s look at some of the emerging HR trends for 2020. The world of work has been changed drastically in the previous decade. So it’s no surprise that the role of HR has transformed too. Consider the impact of the 2008 recession and significant technological advances like internal social media networks that have changed how we work. Today employees work more productively than ever before.

2020 will be another big year for HR; HR will be influenced by new trends that may transform the sector. HR professionals need to keep an […]

Other Voices: What’s next for the warehouse worker?

Other Voices: What’s next for the warehouse worker?

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Editor’s note: The following column by Eric Allais, president and CEO, PathGuide Technologies , is part of Modern’s Other Voices column, […]

Organised business and trade unions should consider joint ventures in IoT to kick-start ailing industries

Organised business and trade unions should consider joint ventures in IoT to kick-start ailing industries

C onnecting everyday physical objects to the internet and ensuring these can “talk” in the cloud may sound like something best left to science fiction writers. However, when you strip away the noise around machine-learning, robotics, the Internet of Things (IoT) and the coming Fourth Industrial Revolution, it becomes clear that an array of exciting opportunities for businesses and industries are on our doorstep in 2020.

The secret to success will be ensuring this data is harnessed so that a valuable action can be performed to benefit consumers, businesses and communities. The potential of this cutting-edge technology to lift under-performing […]

Robotisation could boost economy by $100b in 2030

Robotisation could boost economy by $100b in 2030

This GDP growth comes with a high robotisation rate of 44%, according to Oxford Economics.

The economy could get boosted by as much as $100b should Singapore achieve the optimal growth rate of robot installations across all sectors, according to an analysis by Oxford Economics. The firm calculated a 20% difference in Singapore’s GDP by 2030 with the high- and low-robotisation scenarios that it established.

Sung Eun Jung, economist at Oxford Economics, explained in a note, “Our scenarios were based on historical periods of growth in Singapore’s operational stock of robots. In the high scenario, we assumed that the robot stock […]

The solution for joblessness in the age of automation: Sharing employment

The solution for joblessness in the age of automation: Sharing employment

Unemployment is one of the most pressing problems in today’s world. This is especially true for Turkey where unemployment rate hovers around 10-11% even in good times. Today, since we are so accustomed to "unemployment incidence", we don’t get surprised when we see one. In fact, it is everywhere. How on earth can you get surprised by it? Well, unemployment was not always that widespread. Actually, it had been virtually non-existent once.

People tend to forget what had happened in the past when things were "different". Worse still, many unconsciously assume that things were always the same. But the world […]

Why aren’t IT careers more attractive?

Why aren’t IT careers more attractive?

Students opting for same-old career paths.

IT careers are awesome! Photo: Shutterstock Digitisation of the global workforce has created countless new career paths and tech-focused university courses with zero post-graduate unemployment, but dismaying new figures suggest that young people still dream about the same jobs they did 20 years ago.

Fully 47 per cent of boys and 53 per cent of girls expect to be working in any of just 10 traditional jobs by the time they reach 30, according to the OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA)’s newly-released Dream Jobs: Teenagers’ Career Aspirations and the Future of Work […]

The shape of the British economy has changed radically since 2000

The shape of the British economy has changed radically since 2000

A personal view from Ian Stewart, Deloitte’s Chief Economist in the UK.

The past, as the novelist LP Harley wrote, “is another country, they do things differently there”.

And things were different in the year 2000. The global economy was booming. The 3.5% growth rate in the UK and the 3.8% figure in the euro area that year have not been bettered in the 19 years that followed.Tony Blair was in Downing Street, George Bush was in the White House and Vladimir Putin had just become president of Russia. The events of 9/11, and the subsequent wars in Afghanistan and […]

Automation replacing jobs

, the Bank of England estimates that about 15 million mostly service jobs—half the country’s total—could succumb to automation and widen the gap between rich and poor. S. some jobs remain almost as dirty and dangerous as ever. Although their job loss But look at what’s happening to retail jobs: The economists were wrong. But what is very much up for debate in the imaginations of economists and Hollywood producers is whether the future will look like "The Terminator" or A landmark 2017 study even looked at the impact of just industrial robots on jobs from 1993 to 2007 […]

Machines vs Blue-Collars: Jobs on the Line as the Power Struggle Intensifies

Artificial Intelligence has been at the forefront of the technological revolution for many years now. Manufacturing, IT, health and other industries have been gripped by emerging technologies in automation.

While the advancement has brought a respite in terms of cost and time, it has also thrown plenty of challenges for humans to think about and tackle. One such challenge is AI tech usurping blue-collar workers from their jobs, taking complete control.

The onus is on humans. If we aren’t smart enough with automation, it will, in fact, overthrow humans. But if we are, it can a boon and offer solutions for […]