SOVID-19 accelerates workforce automation, new jobs still coming: WEF

SOVID-19 accelerates workforce automation, new jobs still coming: WEF

Cologny [Switzerland], October 21 (ANI/Sputnik): The coronavirus pandemic has further accelerated the labour market’s transformation, which is going to take away 85 million jobs due to workforce automation but creates 97 million more, the World Economic Forum (WEF) said on Wednesday, summing up its Future of Jobs 2020 report.

"COVID-19 has accelerated the arrival of the future of work. Accelerating automation and the fallout from the COVID-19 recession has deepened existing inequalities across labour markets and reversed gains in employment made since the global financial crisis in 2007-2008. It’s a double disruption scenario that presents another hurdle for workers in […]

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