Tag: Technical

What Companies Need to Do to Improve Working Conditions for Women

What Companies Need to Do to Improve Working Conditions for Women

Society Ellen Kossek is one of America’s leading social scientists, with an extensive career examining employment practices to advance gender equality and diversity. Her upcoming book, Creating Gender-Inclusive Organizations: Lessons from Research and Practice , is a collection of a series of essays from the nation’s leading researchers and practitioners on gender inclusion in the workplace.

The book offers empirically based guidance for HR leaders seeking pathways to harmonious and inclusive working environments that unleash the enormous potential to be gained from a truly diverse workplace. It doesn’t shy away from some contentious issues, such as addressing the near-total absence […]

Why Students Must Be Well-Skilled And In Sync With Technological Demands

Why Students Must Be Well-Skilled And In Sync With Technological Demands

As digital gains ascendancy in the global jobs market, students and job aspirants need a combination of digital, technical and soft skills to retain relevance in the coming years. Even as one reads this, the world of industry and technology is evolving swiftly. Conversely, education has not kept pace with these ongoing universal changes in what is typically termed Industry 4.0. In this new epoch, artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things, big data analytics, machine learning and cloud computing are all playing a pivotal role.

Naturally, if the educational curriculum and students’ skill-sets are not in sync with the requirements […]

Automation to transform manufacturing employment landscape by 2034

Automation to transform manufacturing employment landscape by 2034

Over 60 per cent of Australia’s manufacturing jobs will potentially be impacted by automation technologies over the next 15 years, according to a new report.

Thirty per cent of existing manufacturing jobs will be totally automated and 33 per cent of jobs in the sector will be augmented by technological change by 2034, according to the report from the Australian Computer Society (ACS), the professional association for the nation’s technology sector, and Faethm, a software as a service artificial intelligence platform

The report, Technology Impacts on the Australian Workforce , also indicates that automation technology could add an additional 122,000 jobs […]

Commercial Objectives in the Age of Automation

Commercial Objectives in the Age of Automation

When I was 17 years old, back in 1971, I sold orange juice near a busy street corner in New York City. My job was to stand out in front of a fruit stand and dispense quarts of OJ from a machine. It was pretty simple: keep the hopper on the top of the machine filled with oranges and keep the supply of quart jars steady. Then, when a customer came by to make a purchase, I filled a quart jar with juice, took the customer’s money and rang up the sale in the cash register.

That was my job, […]

Contra the Skeptics, Trade and Technology Really Do Benefit Most American Workers

Contra the Skeptics, Trade and Technology Really Do Benefit Most American Workers

Figuring out how to help the minority being left behind is policymakers’ most urgent challenge.

As we plunge into another presidential-election year, one key point of contention will be the state of the American worker: Are most Americans getting ahead in today’s increasingly high-tech, globalized economy, or have wages and incomes “stagnated” for middle-class and blue-collar workers?

Progressives on the left and economic nationalists on the right seem to share a common view that most American workers are worse off today than in past decades. Trade and technology, they say, are largely to blame. Their favored policy prescriptions range from […]

Einride Hires the First ‘Remote Autonomous Truck Operator’ in the Industry and the Company is Looking to Hire More

Einride Hires the First ‘Remote Autonomous Truck Operator' in the Industry and the Company is Looking to Hire More

While advances in technology and automation are replacing jobs once performed by humans, progress also creates new opportunities, offering people a chance to learn and apply new skills to take on high-tech roles. As autonomous driving technology slowly makes its way into the freight transport, there are some truck drivers who feel threatened that automation or robots will eventually take their jobs away.

However, autonomous transport startup Einride believes that autonomous driving technology will create entirely new job categories and the company is looking to train and hire people for these new high-tech roles. Einride announced today that it hired […]

Report: Most business leaders don’t feel prepared for technological change

Report: Most business leaders don't feel prepared for technological change

There is a concerning lack of readiness for technological change within Australian organisations, according to KPMG Digital Delta.

In its 4th Industrial Revolution Benchmark Report , KPMG said most business leaders are unprepared for the fourth industrial revolution (4IR), and the convergence of the physical, digital and biological worlds.

KPMG Digital Delta surveyed 198 Australian business leaders, gauging their organisations’ uptake and understanding of technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), robotic process automation (RPA) and the Internet of Things (IoT).Produced in collaboration with global analytics platform, Faethm, it found most Australian business leaders lack a deep understanding or experience with […]

Will new technology have a positive impact on job creation?

Will new technology have a positive impact on job creation?

‘Some of the fastest growing job opportunities across all industries hold technology at their core’ The introduction of new technology is not only viewed as very positive by the majority of the C-suite, but it continues to be an important catalyst for job creation, skills development and staff retention, according to Nicole Gorton, Director of Robert Half Australia.

“While some existing job functions are likely to be reallocated to automated processes, particularly manual or back-end processing, candidates who adopt a mindset of constant learning and embrace the potential of new technologies will bolster their employment prospects and are primed to […]

Is Automation Causing Economic Disparity?

Is Automation Causing Economic Disparity?

The utilization of both industrial and service robots has been increasing quickly during the past decade. There is little uncertainty this is leading to changes in income imbalance. Automation replaces tasks recently performed by low-skill labor, however, it likewise makes new tasks, generally more highly talented. Automation clarifies, to some degree, the poor labour market performance of low-talented laborers in cutting edge economies since 2000.

The total level of wages related with jobs that have the technical potential to be automated in the UK is £290 billion every year, which speaks to 33% everything being equal and income from labor […]

A future that’s tense

By Patrick Simon et al

The next decade or two will likely bring about the biggest disruption to work and employment since the Industrial Revolution in the 19th century. In that era, machines replaced more than half of workers in some sectors during a span of only about 30 years.

This time around, the disruption could lead to even more dramatic consequences.… Executives say they’re unable to fill open positions that require skills in data science, digital technologies and advanced analytics. For the consumer packaged-goods (CPG) industry, the skill crunch is just around the corner, driven in part by the […]