Category: Automation Impact on Jobs

Get Ready for an Exciting Career as a Data Hygienist

Get Ready for an Exciting Career as a Data Hygienist

You’ve probably heard about that 2013 study by two University of Oxford researchers that found 47 percent of U.S. jobs, most of them in the service sector, to be at high risk of "computerisation" over the next decade or two.

Other researchers have since argued that this overstates the risk because, while certain tasks are likely to be automated, most jobs involve multiple tasks. A study out last month from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, for example, found that just 14 percent of the jobs in 32 affluent OECD-member countries studied were "highly automatable," although another 32 percent […]

Revealed: Jobs at risk of being taken over by robots, artificial intelligence

Revealed: Jobs at risk of being taken over by robots, artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence is reshaping the way tasks in the workplace are accomplished. DUBAI: With technological advances being the norm, many of the everyday tasks have slowly been replaced by computer-enabled machines, robots or automation — from watering the plants, sweeping the floor to driving to work or checking blood sugar levels.

Innovations aren’t just happening on the homefront and in many companies, there has been a widespread adoption of cool new technology. Eventually, as more employers get more high-tech, a number of workers will see their jobs taken over by their non-human counterparts.

In its report released on Tuesday, the Organisation […]

Automation may steal your job, and spawn a whole new industry

Mayank Kumar & Apoorva Shankar Analysis

Automation and the rise of technologies like artificial intelligence and machine learning are making everyone paranoid — paranoid about job losses: The fact that a machine may soon do your job, make you redundant – and paranoid about what the future of work may look like.

Will it just be a bunch of robots manufacturing everything, end to end, as well as rendering services in clinics, restaurants and shopping malls? Or will humans continue to be a significant factor in most of these activities?Of course, it’s hard to predict exactly what the Fourth […]

Staffing internal workers perceive automation poses little or no risk to their jobs, SIA report

Despite increasing use of technology by staffing firms — as well as rapid growth in automated forms of staffing such as human cloud platforms — staffing firm internal staff see little likelihood that such changes will affect their future job prospects, according to the report, “ North America Internal Staff Survey 2018: Perception of automation impact on internal staff employment ,” recently released by Staffing Industry Analysts.

Internal workers at staffing firms were asked “What is the risk that your job will be replaced by automation (replacement by artificial intelligence and/or robotics) over the next 10 years?” Forty percent of […]

This week’s poll: AI, robots and jobs

This week’s poll: AI, robots and jobs

How much do artificial intelligence and robots pose a risk to jobs in the UK?

The issue of whether automation will lead to job losses seems to be perennial. For every warning that the robots will put us all out of work, there seems to be a comment that increasing the use of robots and AI in industry will actually create jobs. In 2013, Oxford University forecast that 40% of jobs in the US in 2010 and 35% in UK were at high risk of being lost to automation by 2030; but today, an OECD report put the US […]

Why Soft Skills are Crucial in the Age of AI

Why Soft Skills are Crucial in the Age of AI

While AI will lead to employment disruption, Rachel Russell explains why attaining soft skills could pave the way to a long and fruitful career.

Over the last several years, the pace of innovation in artificial intelligence (AI) has accelerated. This field of computer science is devoted to creating machines capable of performing tasks that used to require human intelligence. Today, AI applications are being launched that can drive our cars, take our customer service calls and even prepare our taxes. These same AI innovations are causing anxiety about the prospect of machines taking away jobs.

Predictions have led to a […]

Managing automation: Why we need to break the cycle of industrial decline

Managing automation: Why we need to break the cycle of industrial decline

Towns and cities have risen and fallen with technology, and automation brings a new threat to labour, says researcher Joe Fyans. Technology has helped revolutionise the way we live and work in modern Britain – but the rise of machinery replacing manual labour has generated fear in many communities.

Joe Fyans, a researcher for Localis, examines which parts of Britain are truly at risk from the rise of robots.

Throughout history, waves of technology have driven the rise and fall of towns and cities across the country. Pit villages, steel towns and disused shipyards stand testament.The latest – automation, […]

Northamptonshire jobs ‘most at risk from robots’, according to Sky News study

Northamptonshire jobs 'most at risk from robots', according to Sky News study

Exclusive research by Sky News shows that Corby is the town most threatened by automation in the UK.

Northamptonshire as a whole is the most vulnerable county in the UK. Of the 10 towns most at risk of losing jobs to robotics and software, three are in that county.

And the East Midlands more widely is at risk – seven of the ten towns most threatened are in the region.Sky News worked with researchers from think tank Localis to map local authorities’ exposure to cliff-edge automation.Technological change will affect every aspect of the economy over time, but some areas, whose economies […]

OECD says automation will end 14 per cent of jobs

OECD says automation will end 14 per cent of jobs

The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, which counts all leading countries as members, says automation technology will affect 14 per cent of jobs.

Some might say this is quite a significant number of people, while others might argue this is an under-estimate.

In its report, The Future of Work , the OECD says: “The future of work offers unparalleled opportunities, but there are also significant challenges associated with these mega-trends.”It goes on to say that 14 per cent of all jobs are “highly automatable”, and another 32 per cent “could face substantial change in how they are carried out”.In […]

Sky News and Localis have researched the areas of the UK most at risk from automation

Sky News and Localis have researched the areas of the UK most at risk from automation

Image: Sky News and Localis have researched the areas of the UK most at risk from automation Technology has helped revolutionise the way we live and work in modern Britain – but the rise of machinery replacing manual labour has generated fear in many communities.

Joe Fyans, a researcher for Localis, examines which parts of Britain are truly at risk from the rise of robots.

Throughout history, waves of technology have driven the rise and fall of towns and cities across the country. Pit villages, steel towns and disused shipyards stand testament.The latest – automation, or the replacement of […]