Category: Automation Impact on Jobs

‘Numerous jobs and professions will change’: up to six million could be lost from automation

'Numerous jobs and professions will change': up to six million could be lost from automation

Unemployment could spike by up to 2.5 per cent as a result of the expected automation of up to 46 per cent of jobs in Australia by 2030, a new report has warned.

McKinsey Australia says that left to its own devices, automation could see Australia’s unemployment rate rise without retraining for people whose jobs are lost.

"Without retraining for vulnerable workers, especially administrative and manual workers and those in vulnerable regions, income inequality could widen by up to 30 per cent," the report says.Demand would increase for workers in unpredictable and interactive roles including nursing, care giving and sales, but […]

Lovely, lousy and little in between: The new frontier of work

Lovely, lousy and little in between: The new frontier of work

Linda Nazareth is a senior fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute. Her book Work Is Not a Place: Our Lives and Our Organizations in the Post-Jobs Economy is now available.

When Canada first took a census back in 1871, “blacksmith” and “shoemaker” made the top-10 list of occupations. Unfortunately, if any of the guys who did those jobs then envisioned that their great-great-great grandchildren would be continuing the family business, their dreams would have been very much unfulfilled. Job opportunities for those occupations, as well as many others, have dried up over the years but thankfully have been replaced by […]

DIY Robotics: The New Era of Automation

DIY Robotics: The New Era of Automation

You’ve most likely been hearing much more about robots and robotics technology in the course of the last couple years. That is on the grounds that for the first time since the 1961 introduction of GM’s Unimate, viewed as the first industrial robot, the field is by and by changing world economies. Just this time the effect will be more extensive. A lot more extensive.

Today, robots are springing up in workplaces, emergency clinics, and schools, quite non-industrial environments, just as in warehouses and small assembling centers. To an ever-increasing extent, they are on our streets and flying overhead. Also, […]

Automation Is Coming For The Oil Jobs, Too

Automation Is Coming For The Oil Jobs, Too

Summary: When pundits, politicians, or advocates have talked about the need to reduce fossil fuel production to combat climate change, one of the most common rejoinders has been to appeal to that most central of mordern concerns — it creates a lot of jobs. Oil industry backers are often touting the notion that it creates lots of decent-paying jobs…..

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8 jobs in Georgia that are most automation-proof

8 jobs in Georgia that are most automation-proof

The newest Brookings Institution report says 36 million Americans work in positions that could soon be automated. People are rightly worried that conveniences like self-checkout will strip jobs from those who need them. The competition that used to come from an eager co-worker now comes from the automation that’s poised to take away work from humans.

If you’re losing sleep worrying that a robot will move in on your paycheck, there are some jobs that will be automation-proof. "It all comes down to tasks," Workopolis advised. "The more a job can be broken down into a series of routine tasks, […]

Online Exclusive: Robotics become integrated in the agricultural industry

Online Exclusive: Robotics become integrated in the agricultural industry

Elizabeth Kaiser graphic Industry practitioners and faculty teamed up to lead a discussion on how automation is revolutionizing the agriculture industry and what southwestern Wisconsin can do to capitalize on it. The panelists shared their experiences and opinions regarding the impact of automation on traditional labor-intensive agriculture, the nation’s workforce and economy, the challenges to overcome and the future-prospects of robotics in agriculture.

The panel included special speakers: Craig Hendrickson, School of Agriculture, UW-Platteville; Brian Peckham, School of Business, UW-Platteville; Tera Montgomery, School of Agriculture, UW-Platteville; Kevin Bernhardt, School of Agriculture, UW-Platteville; Jake Rueth, Dairy Science Major, UW-Platteville; Christina Winch, […]

Call $15 minimum wage what it is: the robot full employment act

Call $15 minimum wage what it is: the robot full employment act

The Cloud Pepper robot, which can speak multiple languages, appears at a tech conference in Barcelona on Monday. (Getty Images) Thirty-plus years ago, I became (nerd alert) fascinated with economics and read up on libertarian-conservatives like Milton Friedman and Thomas Sowell and liberals like John Kenneth Galbraith and Paul Samuelson. It was captivating to see how they marshaled seemingly powerful evidence for and against policy proposals, only starting with whether heavy government spending could spur growth of the economy. I would read academics on one side and think of course they’re right, then read the other side and reach […]

2018 Was Big Year for Robot Employment

2018 Was Big Year for Robot Employment

U.S. companies installed more robots last year than ever before, as cheaper and more flexible machines put them within reach of businesses of all sizes and in more corners of the economy beyond their traditional foothold in car plants.

Shipments hit 28,478, nearly 16 percent more than in 2017, according to data seen by Reuters that was set for release on Thursday by the Association for Advancing Automation, an industry group based in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Shipments increased in every sector the group tracks, except automotive, where carmakers cut back after finishing a major round of tooling up for new truck […]

Rethinking the job paradigm: Need increased focus on developing ‘mass services’ as driver of growth

Rethinking the job paradigm: Need increased focus on developing ‘mass services’ as driver of growth

As we enter the fourth industrial revolution, we have to necessarily ‘reboot’ our models if we have to deliver jobs with growth

Since the industrial revolution in the mid 19th century, countries have followed the twin strategies of manufacturing growth and merchandise exports to create millions of new jobs. (Representational photo) Jobs has become the ‘hottest’ political battle as the Lok Sabha elections approaches, as media reports on jobs data from the NSSO survey, and earlier in 2017 from the labour ministry survey of establishments, point towards job-less growth. While the government has raised questions on the accuracy of […]

Automation Is Coming for the Oil Jobs, Too

Automation Is Coming for the Oil Jobs, Too

Photo: Ian Forsyth (Getty) When pundits, politicians, or advocates have talked about the need to reduce fossil fuel production to combat climate change, one of the most common rejoinders has been to appeal to that most central of American concerns—it creates a lot of jobs . Oil industry backers are often touting the notion that it creates lots of decent-paying jobs. It’s also why Trump loves coal; these are generally perceived as very solid and very American jobs.

We know by now that there are actually comparatively very few coal jobs left. But oil and gas companies are automating their […]