Category: Automation Impact on Jobs

The Global Search for Education: Jobsolescence – A Conversation with USCIB President and CEO Peter Robinson

The Global Search for Education: Jobsolescence – A Conversation with USCIB President and CEO Peter Robinson

“I think the guiding principle for government should be to protect and enable/retrain the worker, not protect the job. Policy makers and educators should focus on making sure that workers are as equipped as possible to transition to new opportunities…”

— Peter Robinson

A recent OECD report finds that low and middle income earners have seen their wages stagnate and that the income share of middle-skilled jobs has fallen. Rising inequality has led to concerns that top earners are getting a disproportionate share of the gains from global “openness and interconnection”. This summer, the OECD Employment Outlook 2017 […]

High-paying energy jobs are key for Democrats in 2018

High-paying energy jobs are key for Democrats in 2018

© Thinkstock Clean-energy policies championed by Democrats over the last decade have helped create millions of high-paying energy jobs for American workers. And innovative Democratic policies going forward can help spur millions more good jobs — in energy efficiency, natural gas, nuclear energy, carbon capture, wind, solar, electric vehicles and infrastructure — in coming years.

This record of high-wage job creation stands in stark contrast to Donald Trump ’s false coal-dust promises to somehow bring back jobs using 19 th century energy strategies.

But, as Democrats look toward the mid-term elections, their candidates must talk about energy in the right way. […]

Robotics in business: Everything humans need to know

Robotics in business: Everything humans need to know

YakobchukOlena | istock.com Introduction

One kind of robot has endured for the last half-century: the hulking one-armed Goliaths that dominate industrial assembly lines.

These industrial robots have been task-specific — built to spot weld, say, or add threads to the end of a pipe. They aren’t sexy, but in the latter half of the 20th century they transformed industrial manufacturing and, with it, the low- and medium-skilled labor landscape in much of the U.S., Asia, and Europe. Is your washing machine a robot? Is a modern high-end car a robot? It’s a little like Justice Potter Stewart’s definition of […]

Hawaii considers country’s first Universal Basic Income

Hawaii considers country's first Universal Basic Income

State lawmakers in Hawaii have voted to explore the nation’s first Universal Basic Income (UBI).

A controversial idea, though one that’s gained traction amid fears of the impact of automation on global economies, a UBI would guarantee a living wage to every citizen, regardless of employment status.

Hawaii has one of the lowest unemployment rates in the country at 2.9 percent , but many of the state’s jobs are in low-paying industries like agriculture and hospitality. By some estimates, one in six Hawaiians live below the poverty line.Making matters worse, agriculture and service sector jobs are primed to be replaced by […]

Hawaii considers country’s first Universal Basic Income

Hawaii considers country's first Universal Basic Income

State lawmakers in Hawaii have voted to explore the nation’s first Universal Basic Income (UBI).

A controversial idea, though one that’s gained traction amid fears of the impact of automation on global economies, a UBI would guarantee a living wage to every citizen, regardless of employment status.

Hawaii has one of the lowest unemployment rates in the country at 2.9 percent , but many of the state’s jobs are in low-paying industries like agriculture and hospitality. By some estimates, one in six Hawaiians live below the poverty line.Making matters worse, agriculture and service sector jobs are primed to be replaced by […]

The future of AI: relying on robots in our everyday lives

The future of AI: relying on robots in our everyday lives

Forrester predicts that investments in artificial intelligence (AI) will grow by 300 per cent in 2017, and a recent study by Narrative Science found that 68 per cent of enterprises will use AI technology by 2018. It is no secret that AI and cognitive technology is set to transform every sector. The healthcare sector, customer service and the public sector could change beyond recognition in the not-too-distant future – but how do UK consumers feel about these technological advances? Do they recognise the benefits this could have on their daily lives? Benefits of an artificial intelligence age

The answer […]

The new face of labor: How the next generation can shine in the face of massive change

The labor force that we recognize today won’t be the labor force of my 8-year-old daughter.

Everywhere I go, when I talk with to academics and business people, the theme of the radical pace of change emerges. Technology is driving innovation, which in turn is driving massive change in our labor force.

In just three years, by 2020, a whopping 43 percent of the U.S. labor force will be freelance, up from 34 percent or 53 million last year. The gig economy will be a reality for my daughter, and I wonder if that’s going to be a good place for […]

Transportation, Sales & Retail Jobs ‘To Disappear’ As Robots Take Over

Transportation, Sales & Retail Jobs ‘To Disappear’ As Robots Take Over

Automation and e-commerce are set to phase out 80 percent of transportation and warehousing jobs and 63 percent of sales employment, says Oxford University

Roughly 80 percent of jobs in transportation, warehousing and logistics and 63 percent in sales are likely to disappear due to automation , with retail employment also at a high level of risk, according to Oxford University researchers.

In a study focusing on the impact of automation on e-commerce and the wider wholesale and retail sector, the university’s Oxford Martin Programme on Technology and Employment found the impact of digital commerce systems was only beginning to be […]

Robot technology could spur growth

Robot technology could spur growth

Shadow minister for employment services Ed Husic says there is a large cohort of workers who are worried about their future. Dean Sewell/Oculi Photos by Mark Eggleton

This content is produced by The Australian Financial Review in commercial partnership with the Australian Computer Society.

Depending on who you believe, technology is going to automate and destroy more than 50 per cent of all jobs or it is going to usher in a new age or new wave of careers.The real answer lies somewhere in between. In fact, the things that really need to worry about their jobs are the […]

Retail serfs to vanish, all thanks to automation

Retail serfs to vanish, all thanks to automation

Oxford doomsayers sees bleak future for those employed in retail, transport, warehousing, and logistics

About 80 per cent of jobs in retail transportation, warehousing and logistics and 63 per cent of jobs in sales are at risk of disappearing, thanks to increasingly capable automated systems.

This bleak news – for workers, though not necessarily for employers – comes from Oxford researchers Carl Benedikt Frey, co-director for the Oxford Martin Programme on Technology and Employment, and post-doctoral researcher Chinchih Chen, in a report titled " Technology at Work v3.0: Automating e-Commerce from Click to Pick to Door ."In 2013, Frey, along […]