Category: Automation Impact on Jobs

No, the robots aren’t taking our jobs as Deloitte Access Economics report finds technology is creating more interesting work

No, the robots aren’t taking our jobs as Deloitte Access Economics report finds technology is creating more interesting work

As robots increasingly take over boring and repetitive tasks, more challenging and interesting jobs are being created for humans. Workers have nothing to fear from the pace of technological change, because new technologies are creating just as many jobs as they are destroying, a new report claims.

However, WA’s labour force is facing serious shortages in skills that robots don’t possess — such as customer service, and the ability to care for others.

A new report from Deloitte Access Economics, The Path to Prosperity: Why the Future of Work is Human, says workers’ fears about the rise of insecure work are […]

6 Things Businesses And Governments Must Do To Prepare For A Robotics-Driven Future

6 Things Businesses And Governments Must Do To Prepare For A Robotics-Driven Future

Robots have already substantially changed how businesses are run. Yet, if you think robotics technology plays an important role in the workplace today, its place and purpose will likely be near ubiquitous in industries of the future. Machines will become increasingly better at carrying out the tasks performed by humans (see Fab Mate for instance) and even do things that are impossible for humans to do. As a result, the human resource structure of the average business will change.

To deal with the challenges of a world where robots will play such an outsized role, businesses and governments must develop […]

The Southern Economy Is Falling Behind The Rest Of The US After Spending A Century Trying To Catch Up

The Southern Economy Is Falling Behind The Rest Of The US After Spending A Century Trying To Catch Up

The South has long been the poorest region of the United States due to its dependence on agriculture.

By 2009, the South largely caught up with the rest of the country after legislation was enacted to attract manufacturing jobs.

The divide between the urban and rural areas is becoming more prominent. The southern U.S. has long-held the title of America’s poorest region, and despite nearly catching up to the rest of the country, the region is once again experiencing an economic divergence.States in the American South have achieved the highest unemployment rate and the slowest growth […]

Robots won’t steal your jobs, but that fear may be contributing to stagnant wages, Deloitte says

Robots won’t steal your jobs, but that fear may be contributing to stagnant wages, Deloitte says

Robots will not steal workers’ jobs nor suppress pay, but fear of automation may be contributing to stagnant wages, according to Deloitte Access Economics.

At the National Press Club on Wednesday, Deloitte partner Chris Richardson will argue that improving technology is shifting the mix of skills in demand with employers but fears of mass unemployment are “entirely misplaced”.

In the speech, seen by Guardian Australia, Richardson says despite technological change accelerating for decades, unemployment is “close to record lows around the world” – including the US, UK and Australia.“So if you feared that new technologies would lead to mass unemployment … […]

re:MARS Attendee Notes Future Job Loss from Automation and A.I.

re:MARS Attendee Notes Future Job Loss from Automation and A.I.

There has been a lot of tech news coming out of Amazon’s inaugural re:MARS event in Las Vegas last week, some already noted here ( Jeff Bezos Predicts Advanced Robot Hands in a Decade ).

Below, billionaire Amazon owner Jeff Bezos chats up technology at his re:MARS conference. Many reports from attendees centered around all the sparkly new automation and A.I. advances, so it was a relief to find one that addressed the coming threat to human employment from smart machines. Author Kyle Wiggers (linked below) even included a list of dire predictions near the end of his article, […]

‘It was bound to happen’: Machines are coming to the Vegas Strip — and they may take jobs

'It was bound to happen': Machines are coming to the Vegas Strip — and they may take jobs

Ford wants to use walking robots to help self-driving cars deliver packages. USA TODAY

LAS VEGAS – The coming of the machines is inevitable. And this city knows it.

MGM Resorts International this year plans to install at Las Vegas resorts an unknown number of automated beverage systems programmed to mix hundreds of different drinks – all at the touch of a button.It’s a job that for many years depended on the hands of living, breathing service workers. But as the incoming technology moves closer to Southern Nevada casinos, rank-and-file union workers can’t say for certain whether machines will force them […]

This Lunatic Ten Hour Working Week Idea!

This Lunatic Ten Hour Working Week Idea!

Just when you thought you’d heard it all, along comes the Labour bigwigs backing an absolutely loony-tunes proposal for a ten hour working week.

PLEASE WATCH THE VIDEO BELOW:

Doesn’t it sound so attractive, no-one will work more than ten hours a week and we can save the environment from the climate emergency and have a much better work-life balance in the process.The numbers in the report by Philipp Frey for Autonomy all crunch out right in the spread sheets and the formulas all add up.What it seems to be saying is that, if the country is economically much […]

Sweater manufacturers switching over to automated production system

Industry Desk: A technological shift has been taking place in the country’s readymade garment sector especially in sweater segment as manufacturers are switching over to an automated production system, industry people said.
The main purposes behind the shift are to grab the growing demands for value-added items, increase the productivity of their units and also avoid any untoward labor unrest that took place over wage issues.
A good number of sweater units have already installed the required machines for automation, while some are installing and others are actively considering it, industry insiders said.
The sweater factory workers get their […]

Is Universal Basic Income Coming? (infographic)

Is Universal Basic Income Coming? (infographic)

Is a Universal Basic Income a good idea? The Great Recession drove the wealth gap up significantly worldwide, and the very poor are struggling to regain their footing. Technology is exacerbating this problem as automation threatens to take a large percentage of the world’s unskilled labor positions in just a few short decades, leaving many to question how society can continue to sustain itself under these circumstances. Universal basic income is one possible solution, and the idea has been around longer than you may think.

Thomas Moore called for a universal basic income in Utopia, wondering what the societal benefit […]

This Week’s Awesome Stories From Around the Web (Through June 8)

This Week’s Awesome Stories From Around the Web (Through June 8)

Inside the Amazon Warehouse Where Humans and Machines Become One
Matt Simon | Wired
“Seen from above, the scale of the system is dizzying. My robot, a little orange slab known as a ‘drive’ (or more formally and mythically, Pegasus), is just one of hundreds of its kind swarming a 125,000-square-foot ‘field’ pockmarked with chutes. It’s a symphony of electric whirring, with robots pausing for one another at intersections and delivering their packages to the slides.”

Top Oxford Researcher Talks the Risk of Automation to Employment Luke Dormehl | Digital Trends “[Karl Benedict Frey’s] new […]