The Oxford economist reveals how the pandemic is reshaping the global labour market. In September 2013, two academics at the University of Oxford made a startling prediction. Writing in a university journal, Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael Osborne claimed that by the 2030s, 47 per cent of American jobs would be at risk of automation. The research became one of the most cited and debated economic studies in recent history.
Its methodology was adopted by former US president Barack Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers, the Bank of England (35 per cent of UK jobs would be impacted, according to the […]
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