Category: Automation Impact on Jobs

Autonomy and Automation: Work in the 21st Century (Book Series)

The labour market has been hollowed out and the future of work lies in the shadow of political crises. Many have argued that this growing social polarisation is driven by technological change. However, research has not kept up with the speed at which these changes are occurring. Social protections for workers are being eroded across the globe and technology is arguably catalysing this trend. Historically, the loss of employment in one industry has been more than offset by the expansion of employment in other industries. Yet, this employment tends to emerge under different social conditions. Research has often neglected […]

Lifelong learning is the future of work

Lifelong learning is the future of work

As working environments around the world become overwhelmed by technology, a lifelong learning mindset is imperative to close skills gaps that emerge as work evolves. In the year 2030, you may be working in a job that doesn’t even exist yet. We’re not talking about flying cars or developing the world’s first time machine. The requirements, levels and styles of all kinds of work are evolving very fast, which means you need to understand how you can prepare for future roles that may emerge.

There’s no guaranteed way to tell exactly what skills will be needed in the future, and […]

Presidential hopeful Bill de Blasio wants a tax on robots

Presidential hopeful Bill de Blasio wants a tax on robots

Mayor Bill De Blasio wants to hold robots accountable. New York Mayor and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Bill de Blasio says American workers need to be protected from automation . In an opinion article published last week on Wired, he said as president he would issue a robot tax for corporations displacing humans and would create a federal agency to oversee automation.

"The scale of automation in our economy is increasing far faster than most people realize, and its impact on working people in America and across the world, unless corralled, will be devastating," de Blasio wrote.

De Blasio would call […]

Keep your job options open and don’t ditch science when choosing next year’s school subjects

Keep your job options open and don’t ditch science when choosing next year’s school subjects

Thousands of Year 10 students are in the process of choosing subjects for their final years of school and half will probably choose to ditch science .

For someone like me who thinks science is one of the most worthwhile things I’ve ever studied, that decision is bewildering.

The downward trend in science enrolments has been watched with concern for decades and is the subject of much research . Read more: Curious Kids: how was maths discovered? Who made up the numbers and rules? But still science continues to be out of favour with teens despite its potential use in a […]

Bill de Blasio’s Proposed ‘Robot Tax’ Is Completely Unnecessary, Just Like His Candidacy

Bill de Blasio's Proposed 'Robot Tax' Is Completely Unnecessary, Just Like His Candidacy

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio’s latest attempt to jump-start his inert presidential campaign includes a call for a new federal tax on robots. This unnecessary burden on businesses would expand the federal bureaucracy and fund boondoggle projects, and it is based on a faulty understanding of the relationship between jobs and automation.

In an column published last week by Wired , de Blasio outlines how his "robot tax" (his words) would work. Businesses that "eliminate jobs through increased automation" would be required to pay five years of payroll taxes, up front, for every employee replaced by a robot, de […]

Will 2020 be a breakout year for scaling intelligent automation?

Will 2020 be a breakout year for scaling intelligent automation?

A new study suggests that the scaling of intelligent automation may be coming of age, so is RPA finally becoming mainstream? According to a study from Deloitte, 2019 saw a doubling in the number of companies applying intelligent automation — that’s technologies such as robotics process automation, natural language processing and AI — although there is a big overlap with these technologies. (How can you separate AI and natural language processing, how can you process language without AI?). The report also found that executives expect intelligent automation to increase workforce capacity by 30%. Delve deeper into the report, and […]

Robots dominating job market is not inevitable: Oxford economist Carl Frey

Robots dominating job market is not inevitable: Oxford economist Carl Frey

The economic historian believes technology is neither the solution to everything nor a dystopian nightmare

A research published six years ago by two Oxford academics, Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael Osborne, seemed to reinforce this ominous prediction about the global economy: Robots are going to take over our jobs. For, it warned that “about 47% of total US employment is at risk” due to computerisation. Carl, this year, expanded the ideas of the research in a book, which is portentously titled, The Technology Trap: Capital, Labor, and Power in the Age of Automation .

Contrary to what it seems, […]

The Future Of Work Is Here, What Is Your HR Organization Working On?

The Future Of Work Is Here, What Is Your HR Organization Working On?

Orange butterflies (Argynnis paphia) drinking nectar on a green floral backgroung Getty The emerging contours of the new world of work in the Fourth Industrial Revolution are rapidly becoming reality for millions of workers and companies around the globe. The inherent opportunities for economic prosperity, societal progress and individual flourishing in this new world of work are enormous. To realize them depends crucially on all concerned stakeholders’ ability to instigate reform in skill development systems, labor market policies, employment arrangements and existing social contracts. Catalyzing positive outcomes and a future of good work for all will require bold leadership […]

DB Original /World’s most popular teacher Prof. Yuval Noah Harari said: Technology will hack humans, jobs will not last even for 5 years

DB Original /World’s most popular teacher Prof. Yuval Noah Harari said: Technology will hack humans, jobs will not last even for 5 years

Professor Yuval Noa Harari of Israel’s Hebrew University shows the world a picture of the future

He was interview by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, former IMF chief Christine Lagarde

Dainik Bhaskar also spoke to him on technology, machines, and the future Professor Yuval Noah Harari at the Hebrew University of Israel is a teacher interviewed by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, former IMF chief Christine Lagarde and noted actress Natalie Portman.Born in 1976, Harari has sold 20 million copies of his books such as Sapiens, Homo Deus and 21 Lessons for 21 Century. Dainik Bhaskar spoke to him on technology, […]

Artificial intelligence will hog all the best menial tasks

When people talk about the effects of automation and artificial intelligence on the economy, they often fixate on the quantity of human workers. Will robots take our jobs? Others focus instead on threats to the quality of employment—the replacement of middle-class occupations with lower-skill, lower-wage ones; the steady elimination of human discretion as algorithms order around warehouse pickers, ride-hailing drivers, and other workers.

What’s less understood is that artificial intelligence will transform higher-skill positions, too—in ways that demand more human judgment rather than less. And that could be a problem. As AI gets better at performing the routine tasks traditionally […]