Oxford doomsayers sees bleak future for those employed in retail, transport, warehousing, and logistics
About 80 per cent of jobs in retail transportation, warehousing and logistics and 63 per cent of jobs in sales are at risk of disappearing, thanks to increasingly capable automated systems.
This bleak news – for workers, though not necessarily for employers – comes from Oxford researchers Carl Benedikt Frey, co-director for the Oxford Martin Programme on Technology and Employment, and post-doctoral researcher Chinchih Chen, in a report titled " Technology at Work v3.0: Automating e-Commerce from Click to Pick to Door ."In 2013, Frey, along […]
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