Category: Automation Impact on Jobs

Automation key to U.S. jobs: Reshoring Institute

Automation key to U.S. jobs: Reshoring Institute

Will U.S. manufacturing be able to create jobs, particularly in view of increased automation displacing workers. The Reshoring Initiative has recognized the automation trend and that returning jobs will be, on average, higher skilled and fewer than when the work was lost to offshore. So, how should companies and policy makers plan for increased automation and what will be the impact on jobs?

–The impact of automation on jobs is exaggerated thus far. For the last two decades automation has replaced fewer jobs than were lost to offshoring.

–Productivity is actually growing slowly. Productivity growth has been low for the last […]

Tax the robots? “No way,” says EU official tasked with preparing Europe for a digital future

Tax the robots? “No way,” says EU official tasked with preparing Europe for a digital future

The leader of the EU initiative tasked with preparing Europe’s workforce for changing jobs doesn’t think that taxing robots is a good idea.

As machines take on more human work, at least some human workers will lose their jobs. Bill Gates has proposed a simple solution for this conundrum: Governments should tax robot workers’ productivity in the same way they tax human workers.

In a February interview with Quartz , Gates argued that governments could use the revenue to fund social safety-net programs and support jobs that still require human empathy and understanding.Andrus Ansip, the EU Commissioner in charge of the […]

The Greens endorse a universal basic income. Others need to follow

The Greens endorse a universal basic income. Others need to follow

The future of work is an issue that no one seems to want to address. With precarious employment and widespread underemployment becoming the norm, the rapid expansion of the gig economy and automation threatening to put millions out of work in the coming years, it is astonishing that the future welfare of working people isn’t dominating this election.

It seems unlikely that the automation trend will change. Half of UK companies believe artificial intelligence will soon fundamentally change their industries . But like several other of the biggest issues which threaten our future wellbeing – most notably climate change – […]

Will robots take your job? This new website will tell you

Will robots take your job? This new website will tell you

Robots, artificial intelligence and automation are changing the way we live, but do these advances in technology pose a threat to your job security?

A new website, WillRobotsTakeMyJob.com , predicts the probability of automation for hundreds of jobs.

The search results are based on a 2013 research report titled “The Future of Employment: How susceptible are jobs to computerisation?”The report said about 47% of total U.S. employment is at risk of automation.Earlier this year, Yum Brands CEO Greg Creed said there will likely be a “dramatic change in how machines run the world” by the mid-2020s.It’s already happening at fast-food restaurants, […]

As more robots join the workforce, some say it could bring an ‘upswing in jobs’

As more robots join the workforce, some say it could bring an 'upswing in jobs'

The Seegrid robot is put to work by Bob Zorn, 54, of Crafton Heights, at the Giant Eagle Warehouse in the West End on Thursday, May 25, 2017. Updated 57 minutes ago

Bob Zorn’s coworkers were waiting for him when he started his shift at Giant Eagle’s warehouse in Pittsburgh.

The two blue, autonomous pallet jacks sat idle near the receiving bays. Their stately calm was out of place in the chaos — organized chaos they call it — of the warehouse in Fairywood.Even at shift change, workers on pallet jacks and fork lifts honk as they whiz by. But the […]

The robots are coming

The robots are coming

 Automation has driven up living standards, but could AI bring an economic and social storm? T he abandoned factories littered across America’s Rust Belt stand as a testament to the collateral damage of globalisation. As competition from abroad has limited job opportunities for low-skilled workers in many Western countries, populists have capitalised, painting globalisation as a disease, and protectionism as the cure.

But another threat to the working classes looms in cities such as Greenville, South Carolina. Greenville is a modern manufacturing success story that is home to BMW, Bosch, Michelin and General Electric factories, providing job opportunities and […]

Prepare for the robot revolution

Prepare for the robot revolution

The rise of automation presents society with new challenges, warns Keith Hebden

Road ahead: driverless vehicles could remove the livelihoods of thousands TECHNOLOGY both frees and displaces people.

During the Industrial Revolution, mechanisation took over much agricultural and textile work, forcing impoverished people into cities in huge numbers. Today, society faces an even bigger upheaval than that experienced by its steam-powered ancestors: the rise of automation.The professional-services firm PwC predicts that “up to around 30 per cent of existing UK jobs are susceptible to automation from robotics and Artificial Intelligence by the early 2030s”. These jobs will either disappear […]

If automation destroys jobs then why countries that use automation the most…

Automation doesn’t destroy jobs; it merely replaces certain manual labor tasks to be maintenance tasks and, as Marx already said back in the day, the modernization of technology merely ups the disciplining of labor alongside it.

Because in western europe theres a growing trend of people (being forced to) start their own one-person legal entity and sell their labour under minimum wage and without benefits to others. Theres also a massive growing population of zero hour contract workers.

Both of these groups can work for zero hours a month, without being counted as unemployed. To be counted as unemployed in germany […]

Gil Smart: Automation puts 60 percent of local jobs at risk. Now what?

Gil Smart: Automation puts 60 percent of local jobs at risk. Now what?

Buy Photo The offices of C&W Technologies in Stuart are quiet — "typical," said President/CEO Eric Kiehn. Employees tap on computer keyboards and stare into screens.

You don’t see the robots.

Yet the computer service company now has about half as many employees as it did a decade ago, while it serves more clients. Kiehn said automated processes — robots, if you will — now handle routine processes that once might have required the human touch.A decade ago, technicians had to drive to a client’s site to access computers and perform routine maintenance. Now it’s all done remotely and automatically."Our philosophy […]

The No. 1 industry being threatened by robots

The No. 1 industry being threatened by robots

The robot revolution may not have replaced us yet , but automation is undoubtedly creeping its way into many careers.

Hundreds of jobs now require some level of robotics skills, a new analysis from career website Zippia found. Nearly 1,000 job titles now have robotics-related requirements, the study found, which it defined as degree of autonomy, a set of intended tasks, and ability to function without human intervention. Of 985 such jobs it found in its database, 492 job titles were listed multiple times in fields that had robotics-related requirements.

The manufacturing industry has already been hit by automation, which has […]