On the back of the report’s findings, the IPPR is calling on the Government to manage automation so that the benefits and threats to the labour market of the future are balanced A rise in automation across a slew of industries could widen an already stubborn gap between the incomes of the UK’s richest and poorest, a new report compiled by the Institute for Public Policy Research has warned.
In the study, the IPPR argues that the total level of wages associated with jobs that have the technical potential to be automated in the UK is around £290bn annually. That […]
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