Category: Automation Impact on Jobs

The AI Survival Guide For Leaders

The AI Survival Guide For Leaders

Pexels Pexels Artificial intelligence’s takeover is not an impending possibility — it’s here. We use GPS without a thought, accept guidance from customer service bots, and our interests quickly turn into smartphone recommendations. From these experiences, I can’t help but connect the dots to the impact they will have on the passion I hold professionally dear: leadership.

These observations are just a subset of the impact of automation on leadership, and thus, this article will likely be the first of several that I will occasionally publish to share my reflections.

Real-Time Data On the surface, this is an already ubiquitous […]

Knapheide helping lead hunt for more welders

Knapheide helping lead hunt for more welders

Jeffery Noble Herald-Whig

QUINCY — First, the good news.

Knapheide Manufacturing Co., the longtime Quincy company that is a leading producer of truck bodies and truck beds. Business has been especially booming the past seven or eight years, once the country had worked itself through the most-recent recession that ended around 2010.And the bad news?The company cannot attract enough people to fill openings, particularly in some of the skilled trade positions. That’s especially true in welding."We could hire 40 welders today," said Jim Rubottom, vice president of human resources and a 29-year employee at Knapheide. "Young people are just not that […]

Automation Isn’t the End of Jobs

Automation Isn't the End of Jobs

Note: This video is one of several interviews that Morningstar director of personal finance Christine Benz had with Vanguard officials at this year’s Bogleheads event. See all of the interviews here .

Christine Benz: Hi, I’m Christine Benz for Morningstar.com. What will the increase in automation mean for the future of jobs in the economy? Joining me to discuss some recent research on that topic is Joe Davis. He is the global chief economist and global head of Vanguard Investment Strategy Group.

Joe, thank you so much for joining me. Joe Davis: Thank you, Christine. Benz: Joe, let’s talk […]

Pitting people against technology is not the answer to future recruitment and retention. Training is.

Pitting people against technology is not the answer to future recruitment and retention. Training is.

Echoing our blog post earlier this week, Helen Jamieson points to training and upskilling as the way to combat automation. Reading time: 4 minutes The last two years has seen a rapid and fundamental shift in the way we work. Movements such as #metoo, the boom in zero-hours contracts , and a new regard for mental health has seen much-welcomed debate about working culture.

It has, however also given rise to a worrying trend of navel gazing, as employers seek to respond to the latest headline issue, rather than take the time to assess the direction of their workforce as […]

Doctor Who: Kerblam!

Doctor Who: Kerblam!

Episode 7 of the first season with Jodie Whittaker as the Doctor is called “Kerblam!” We learn why very early in the episode, as the Doctor receives a teleport delivery via robot. Kerblam, we are told, is the biggest retailer in the galaxy. The Doctor had apparently ordered a fez some time ago and forgotten about it. If that were true and there were no other factors, we would think that the company was very late in delivery. But on the one hand, this might have been the Doctor passing through the earlier time period in which the order […]

Ministers urged to scrap school leaving age of 16

Ministers urged to scrap school leaving age of 16

Education: Workforce must become more skilled, report says (file pic). Young people should be made to stay in education until they are 18, a think tank has said.

The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) Scotland made the call as it published a new report on the impact automation and ageing could have on the country.

In the report, the organisation said almost half (46%) of all jobs in Scotland have the potential to be changed in the coming years as a result of automation.At the same time the increasing number of elderly people means there will need to be […]

Varadkar warning over transition to digital economy

Varadkar warning over transition to digital economy

57% of Irish adults have minimal or no computer or technology skills Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has warned that there is no scope for complacency about the Irish economy, as the transition to a more technological age will be particularly difficult for Ireland.

Launching the Government’s ‘Future Jobs’ strategy in Dublin, Mr Varadkar acknowledged that jobs growth was at record levels.

However, he said history was littered with examples of regions that had thrived economically at one time or another, assuming their competitive advantage would last forever.He said the consequences of those failures could be seen across the western world – as […]

Is tech a friend or foe when it comes to workplace equality?

Is tech a friend or foe when it comes to workplace equality?

"It will be a challenge to develop software which is 100% unbiased and can truly contribute to workplace equality". Photo: iStock Analysis: an assessment of technology’s impact on gender pay gaps, equal employment opportunities and life/work balance

Topics such as the "future of work" , "Industry 4.0" and the "gig economy" have recently become almost ubiquitous in popular media. While debate about such topics is called for, one of the criticisms, which can be levelled at some of those to the fore of such discussions is the largely homogenous way in which these developments are discussed.

Technological advancement holds great […]

School leaving age should be scrapped in ‘lifelong learning revolution’

School leaving age should be scrapped in ‘lifelong learning revolution’

School students Ministers are being urged to scrap the current school leaving age of 16 and instead bring in a requirement that young people stay in learning, in either the classroom or the workplace, until they are 18.

The IPPR Scotland think tank made the call as it published a new report on the impact automation and ageing could have on the country.

Director Russell Gunson said: “Aside from Brexit, preparing for automation and ageing should be the top priority for Scotland.”The additional investment in skills and training needed to prepare for automation could reach £250 million a year by 2025 […]

AI: More than robots in the factory

AI: More than robots in the factory

Fancy a free salary? No strings attached. Technology heavyweights, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg and Richard Branson all back Universal Basic Income (UBI). Graham Smith from Microsoft recruitment partner Curo Talent , explains why these policies aren’t simply the brain fodder of billionaires, but could become a reality due to advances in artificial intelligence.

UBI describes a cash handout, distributed to everyone, irrespective of a citizen’s employment status. The concept has long been supported by socialists, but the inequality of jobs caused by automation could make policies like this a necessity.

Reports by PwC estimate that robots could represent up to 30% […]