Category: Automation Impact on Jobs

Work Wanted: Manufacturing jobs harder to find

They say that the factory of the future will have just two employees: a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to make sure the man doesn’t touch anything.

Although that factory is still far in the future, the manufacturing sector has shed a third of its total employment in the past 30 years. Presidential candidate Donald Trump promised on the campaign trail to renegotiate trade deals and “bring back” jobs. In Erie, Pa., in August 2016, he declared “I promise we can fix it so fast. We will […]

When It Comes to Automation, Wall Street Needs to Learn from the Rust Belt

When It Comes to Automation, Wall Street Needs to Learn from the Rust Belt

This article was written by Devin Gharibian-Saki, Chief Solution Officer at Redwood Software.

It’s an innovative change that has already started slipping into reality: Wall Street’s corporations are waking up to the potential of automation and robotics in their workplaces. New automation software and integrations for robotics are filtering into Wall Street and, as a result, are implying a need for change in the industry. Manufacturing

Rust Belt cities like Detroit, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, and Buffalo have already seen the effects of automation on their respective workforces. Manufacturing jobs that once inundated these cities saw robotics and automation exert robust […]

Robots are winning the jobs race

Job creation is the most difficult task for any administration. Having a secure job with good prospects of advancement is the dream of those who aspire to be productive members of society. So it is understandable that many fret about the risk of losing their jobs to robots that are replacing humans in many industries.

In the 1970s the western world experienced yet another industrial revolution when manufacturing was most affected by the introduction of robots on factory floors. A study by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology claims that “for every robot per thousand workers, up to six workers lost […]

Thai students woefully under-prepared for next industrial revolution

Thai students woefully under-prepared for next industrial revolution

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Thai students woefully under-prepared for next industrial revolution

Special to The Nation Last month, schools across Thailand began a new academic year. The new school year brings with it new friends, new teachers and new experiences, but one aspect of school life will remain unchanged: the outdated and ineffective system of teaching, learning and assessment, so appalling it now threatens to abandon children in a previous century, implying a “Thailand 0.4” instead of the government’s dream of a national reboot. The failings of the education system have been well documented, with the country consistently ranking poorly […]

A Techno-Optimist Take on Automation and Jobs

Reason writer Ronald Bailey outlines a strong case that fears about technological unemployment are overblown. For instance: He adds needed context to the recent finding by MIT economist Daron Acemoglu and Boston University economist Pascual Restrepo that each additional industrial robot in the United States results in 5.6 American workers losing their jobs.

But even taking the high-end estimate, job loss due to robots was has been just 670,000 since 1990 while “last year some 62.5 million Americans were hired in new jobs, while 60.1 million either quit or were laid off from old ones, according the Bureau of Labor […]

How automation is going to affect jobs in pharma, core,auto and consumer sector

How automation is going to affect jobs in pharma, core,auto and consumer sector

Robotisation is not a threat yet to human employment. The ratio of men versus machines is skewed towards humans. The workplace is at a tipping point with automation changing the way companies work. A host of sectors are beginning to adapt to the future of work in the context of automation. ET brings you a lowdown on how the pharma , core , automotive and consumers sectors are responding to automation, and what it means for skills and jobs in these industries.

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Reskilling at the organisation level.
Areas where automation is happening. Manufacturing and supply […]

Customer service should mimic the 5 levels of autonomous cars

Customer service should mimic the 5 levels of autonomous cars

Image Credit: Shutterstock / Melpomene

In 1900, 41 percent of the U.S. workforce was employed in agriculture . By the year 2000, that number had dropped to 1.9 percent. This massive shift in labor was mostly due to advances in technology and mechanization, allowing for fewer people to create more crop. In the 21st century, other sectors will see the same kind of shift, with automation and AI at its heart.

Many industries are already going through a similar process. Manufacturing may be a lost cause already, with industrial robots, higher efficiency, and lost jobs, but two other industries — self-driving […]

With all the talk of future job automation… how will GIS stand up?

With all the talk of future job automation... how will GIS stand up?

That really seems to smack of wishful thinking, unfortunately. Given the sheer level of capability we’re already seeing in certain types of software–let alone their capacity for learning–I don’t see GIS being particularly resistant to automation.

Off the top of my head, I can’t really think of any "bespoke" GIS work that is fundamentally more complex than producing art, writing news stories, diagnosing a patient, or providing legal counsel, all of which are already in the process of being successfully automated to a greater or lesser extent.

Sure, there’ll be a learning curve with automating GIS, but there is with every […]

There are lots of jobs in warehouses. Good salaries? Not so much.

There are lots of jobs in warehouses. Good salaries? Not so much.

Look out at the sea of warehouses in the Inland Empire, crowded big rigs on Southern California freeways and massive ships in the ever-expanding ports and it’s clear that the trade and logistics industries have had a good decade.

Now a report from the Los Angeles Economic Development Corporation puts numbers to that picture, finding that the trade and logistics workforce grew by nearly 10 percent from 2005-2015 and now totals nearly 600,000 people.

Economists used data from the U.S. Census Bureau, Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Bureau of Economic Analysis of the U.S. Department of Commerce. They found that […]

Transforming Today’s Bad Jobs into Tomorrow’s Good Jobs

Transforming Today’s Bad Jobs into Tomorrow’s Good Jobs

All eyes are on the future of work and the impact that automation and machine learning will have on U.S. jobs. The blizzard of conferences, initiatives, articles, and reports on how to prepare for the changes technology will bring to our economy is important. But so is today — and it feels to us like the futurists are leaving behind what’s happening now .

Work currently does not work for millions of Americans. Nearly 11.5 million people who work as retail salespeople and cashiers and in food prep and service — the three largest occupations in the United States — […]