Category: Automation Impact on Jobs

Watch: Tucker Carlson Examines the Male Wage Crisis in ‘Men in America’ Segment — ‘Washington Is Not Worried at All About This’

Watch: Tucker Carlson Examines the Male Wage Crisis in ‘Men in America’ Segment — ‘Washington Is Not Worried at All About This’

Wednesday on Fox News Channel’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” host Tucker Carlson warned of the effects of deepening male unemployment on American society, which he argued has been ignored by policymakers in Washington, D.C.

According to Carlson, while much focus has been given to the gender-pay gap, the unintended consequences, like the impact it has on the American family structure, aren’t realized nor addressed.

Transcript as follows: Well, they’re invisible in Washington. Uncounted by the official unemployment numbers you hear on television, and yet they’re everywhere – Americans who have dropped out of the workforce, workers who don’t work. An ever-increasing […]

Adapt or die: How to cope when the bots take your job

Adapt or die: How to cope when the bots take your job

Image caption Will smart virtual assistants take our jobs or make them more fulfilling? Reports that robots, automation and artificial intelligence are going to put millions of us out of work may sound troubling, but should we believe them? That largely depends on whether we’re technology optimists or pessimists. In our Future of Work series we look at how jobs might change in the future.

The Snewing family lived in 62 Falkner Street, Liverpool, for more than four decades. They were saddlers working in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries. And while the horse-drawn economy dominated, they enjoyed a […]

The future of work in Ireland

The future of work in Ireland

Will the morning commute be a thing of the past? Brainstorm St Patrick’s Day: on a weekend spent celebrating our nation’s history, what are the trends likely to affect the Irish workforce over the coming years?

People across the globe are talking about the future of work. Often, discussion ranges from excitement for a flexible and promising workplace driven by innovation, to a more unsettling depiction where robotics and AI erode the need for human labour.

What is clear is that work, workers, and workplaces are changing dramatically. Traditional, lifetime employment is declining, and the emergence of the digital era […]

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How Will Technology Affect Immigrant Workers?

News media and analysts have given much attention to automation — the process of technology taking over manual tasks — and how it will affect jobs in the United States over the next few decades. The impact could be significant on the immigrant population, especially those with “low-skilled†jobs, defined as jobs that require a high school diploma or less. Many fear that increased automation will reduce the number of overall jobs available to the general population as well as immigrants. Experts agree that automation will affect certain professions to a degree. In a […]

Get ready for the robots, Green Cities property conference hears

The Green Cities panel: Kylie Rampa, Rod Fehring, and John Flecker. supplied The country’s biggest property players are bracing for the next wave of disruption, including the potential impacts of automation and artificial intelligence, an industry forum has heard.

Opening the Green Cities conference in Melbourne on Wednesday was a panel of industry heavyweights: Lendlease’s Kylie Rampa, Frasers Property Australia’s Rod Fehring and Multiplex’s John Flecker.

The panel was aware of the impact of increased automation on existing jobs, while noting that the workforce and production processes must adapt to inevitable change.Ms Rampa, who heads Lendlease’s Australian property arm, said she […]

Is technology taking jobs or creating new ones? | Noelle Neff

Is technology taking jobs or creating new ones? | Noelle Neff

Noelle Neff Noelle Neff is an accomplished photographer and aspiring journalist based in Coral Gables, Florida. Her passion began with photography but she quickly realized that while a picture is worth a thousand words, those words still need to be written. She believes that as technology brings the world together regional news has an increasingly global impact.

In the 18th-century, England was the starting point for the Industrial revolution which would spark the transition to the modern world we occupy today. As any history teacher will attest to, the people of the 18th and 19th-centuries were initially unhappy with […]

Are We Prepared for Automation?

Are We Prepared for Automation?

We are barreling toward a future of automation. A great proportion of the six million US manufacturing jobs that have disappeared over the last few decades were lost as a direct result of automation’s slow absorption of physical labor and factory work. Now the pace is quickening and thanks to developments in artificial intelligence, automation’s reach is expanding, too.

According to Elon Musk, self-driving cars will displace 15% of the world’s workforce. Musk warns that driverless cars are closer than they might appear. Increasingly, trading on the stock market is becoming automated. A staggering 70% of daily trading is done […]

Innovation should be a primary focus for Kenya

The capacity for innovation in industry is a key ingredient in the creation of a productive workforce, which in turn increases industry competitiveness.

The global conversation on the coming industrial revolution centres on the automation of the manufacturing sector, which is envisioned to replace human resources.

However, highly industrialized economies have already started to integrate this automation in their processes in a way that complements existing manual labour. In fact, owing to this integration, many have been training their workforce and equipping them with skills beyond the manual labour, which will still render them valuable come industry 4.0.Since, as I mentioned, […]

In An Era Of Changing Work, How Will Your Job Define Who You Are?

In An Era Of Changing Work, How Will Your Job Define Who You Are?

Darren Garrett The steelworks in Port Talbot, Wales, once among the largest in Europe, are the tallest buildings for miles in any direction. 50 years ago, they loomed over the town as a symbol of prosperity; today they represent the loss of that success. In the 1960s, nearly 20,000 of a population of 50,000 worked there; now, only 4,000 do , roughly one in ten residents.

"[The steel industry] was deeply entwined with the social life," says Bleddyn Penny. He grew up in a similar Welsh community, and went on to study the post-World War II social history of Port […]

Why the Automation Boom Could Be Followed by a Bust

Why the Automation Boom Could Be Followed by a Bust

Theo Chapel/EyeEm/Getty Images You may not be sharing your office with a robot yet, but the next wave of automation has begun. Humanoid service robots, machine learning algorithms and autonomous logistics will replace millions of service workers in the coming decade. Experts are rushing to forecast the likely impact on jobs. But most projections overlook two powerful forces that will combine with automation to reshape the global economy by 2030: rapidly aging populations and rising inequality.

The collision of these three forces sets the stage for a 10- to 15-year economic boom followed by a bust. An aging workforce , […]