It seems almost every day we are presented with more evidence that automation is having profound consequences on the nature of work in America—in expected and unexpected ways.
In a report issued at the end of June by Oxford Economics, researchers estimated that up to 20 million manufacturing jobs could be replaced by robots—roughly 8.5% of the global manufacturing workforce. As detailed in the report, the use of robots worldwide has tripled over the last 20 years to 2.25 million machines—but the global stock of robots in industry has more than doubled since 2010, and roughly one-third of the robots […]
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