Category: Automation Impact on Jobs

From Reindeer to Robots, Automation Set to Deliver This Holiday Season

From Reindeer to Robots, Automation Set to Deliver This Holiday Season

“It’s a fight for talent…It’s like ‘Game of Thrones’ out there,” Erik Caldwell, chief operating officer for supply chain in the Americas and Asia Pacific at XPO Logistics Inc., XPO 3.02% said at an industry conference earlier this year, discussing the company’s use of robots to fulfill online orders. Also in Logistics

The use of robotics and other automation technology in industrial operations is growing, although the vast majority of warehouse work remains largely manual. About 16.5% of organizations across several industries including warehousing are now using commercial service robots, and 21.5% have them in pilots, according to a […]

Artificial intelligence will lead to a ‘positive shift in the work people do’

Artificial intelligence will lead to a 'positive shift in the work people do'

The debate around artificial intelligence and jobs won’t go away. However, the most likely outcome of AI — looking at other industrial revolutions — will be a positive shift in the nature of the work people do ‘Without ambition and creative thinking, we won’t be able to apply AI effectively to the problems that we face’. The threat of AI to jobs — it is a debate that won’t go away. The Bank of England and the World Bank Chief are only two voices, in a growing network, that are concerned by the rise of AI and the loss […]

Your next job interview could be with a robot

Your next job interview could be with a robot

AndreyPopov | iStock | Getty Images There’s a lot of talk lately about robots taking our jobs.

Estimates predict that the number of jobs lost to automation within the next decade could be a million in the U.S. alone.

But what about the new job opportunities they could create? Advocates say that the number of positions created by technological developments will far outweigh those taken away .The recruitment industry is front and center to that disruption from automation.Increasingly, employers are using robotics to speed up the recruitment process and free up hiring managers’ time for more complex tasks, while removing human […]

Automation is transforming economy — Mark K. Allen

Automation is transforming economy -- Mark K. Allen

The Sept. 18 article in the State Journal "Machines seen dominating work by 2025" stated that automation will dominate the workplace in a few short years. That should grab everyone’s attention.

In about six years, over half the workplace jobs will be done by machines. While our attention is directed at globalization and immigrants, the real challenge we must address is the impact of technology on employment. We have already accepted that factory workers can be replaced by robots. It’s not difficult to see that truck drivers will not be needed in a world with self-driving vehicles.

It may be more […]

How to bridge India’s tech-induced skill gap

How to bridge India's tech-induced skill gap

Oct 2 (IANS): The world stands on the brink of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, powered by a wide range of new technology breakthroughs — Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, advanced robotics, Internet of Things, cloud computing and 3D printing — and the revolution is expected to result in major changes in the labour market globally by reducing the demand for middle-skilled workers doing repetitive tasks, and increasing the demand for more highly-skilled workers and also low-skilled workers doing non-routine work.

While many developed countries, such as the US, Japan and several European economies, are already experiencing this labour market polarisation, the […]

How to bridge India’s tech-induced skill gap (Column: Active Voice)

How to bridge India's tech-induced skill gap (Column: Active Voice)

The world stands on the brink of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, powered by a wide range of new technology breakthroughs — Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, advanced robotics, Internet of Things, cloud computing and 3D printing — and the revolution is expected to result in major changes in the labour market globally by reducing the demand for middle-skilled workers doing repetitive tasks, and increasing the demand for more highly-skilled workers and also low-skilled workers doing non-routine work.

While many developed countries, such as the US, Japan and several European economies, are already experiencing this labour market polarisation, the market is also […]

Dear government, this big reform is key to creating more jobs in India

Dear government, this big reform is key to creating more jobs in India

Representative Image A new report brought out by the Centre for Sustainable Employment at the Azim Premji University, State of Working India, shows how desperately India needs to rethink its jobs and labour strategy, with labour law reforms being the key thrust. Allaying, at least for now, the fears of automation eating up jobs, the report says the replacement of workers in organised manufacturing by machines has been slowing down even as the number of jobs supported by Rs 1 crore of real fixed capital (in 2015 prices) had fallen from 90 in the 1980s to 10 in 2010; […]

Workers shouldn’t fear the rise of the robots

Workers shouldn’t fear the rise of the robots

It’s easy to panic about automation and AI, but they’re coming so we have to grab the opportunities with both hands We’re all doomed. Technology has ruined us and will soon destroy what’s left of our humanity. Algorithms will corrupt free will. Automation will degrade the value of work. We’re becoming slaves to the machines, flotsam on an uncontrollable tide of progress.

Forecasts about the effects of technological advances are almost invariably gloomy and of late have been infused with apocalyptic hysteria. New techs and tech-driven behaviours are always discussed, first and foremost, as threats rather than opportunities. Fretting about […]

New York City high schools should expand vocational education

New York City high schools should expand vocational education

A group of students doing their work in a classroom workshop near Robert Bosch Vocational School in Ulm, Germany. The United States is entering an era of dramatic economic upheaval as the industrial economy – and, increasingly, even the service sector – automates tasks once performed by humans. In 20 years, many of the jobs currently held by people without college degrees, including cab and truck drivers, forklift operators and even line cooks, could be filled by robots. Last year, a report by the McKinsey Global Institute found that up to 73 million American jobs could be lost to […]

Automation And The Future Of Work

Automation And The Future Of Work

AUTOMATION AND THE FUTURE OF WORK

Understanding the impact of automation on workers throughout the world.

TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. AUTOMATION ACROSS THE WORLD – Summary, Advances In Technologies, Worker Displacement, Probabilities of Automation, Research Studies Suggest High Probabilities Of Automation, It’s Different This Time 2. SUSCEPTIBILITY TO AUTOMATION IN THE WORLD ECONOMIES – Developing Economies, Advanced Economies 3. GENERAL CONSEQUENCES – Political, Economic 4. SOME SOLUTIONS – Prepare For Automation With “Difficult To Automate” Skills, Convince Employers And Educational Institutions To Address The Skills Gap, Pursue High Skill Occupations, Education – Real World Project Challenges […]