Category: Automation Impact on Jobs

Is Automation Taking Away Jobs? Are We Prepared For This Revolution? by hms818

Is Automation Taking Away Jobs? Are We Prepared For This Revolution? by hms818

It’s difficult to understand the recent hype over automation taking away jobs. Everybody knew up and down this was coming, however when it came, most appeared to have been overwhelmed. The quantity of such lay-offs in the IT area this year isn’t much, however the future can irritate if organizations and the governments don’t consider retraining and reskilling.

Without that, work prospects are terrible for some, as people and associations aren’t staying aware of the pace of innovation. For instance, the PC processor duplicates in power at regular intervals, 10 times more prominent like clockwork. So innovative unemployment is a […]

Machines Coming to Take Millions of Thai Jobs: Report

Machines Coming to Take Millions of Thai Jobs: Report

Original image: A farmer irrigates his rice fields in a 2013 photo. Photo: Chris Graham / Flickr BANGKOK — Millions of Thais are at risk of losing their jobs in the coming years – and it’s not “illegal immigrants” or “outsourcing” to blame. Yes, the robots are coming to steal jobs.

Thanks to rapid improvements in automation and artificial intelligence, up to 9.2 million Thais are at high risk of being replaced by machines, while millions of other jobs are on the line in the next two decades, said a U.N. report published Tuesday.

If the International Labor Organization’s, or ILO, […]

Click Here to Find Out If a Robot Will Take Your Job

Click Here to Find Out If a Robot Will Take Your Job

Image: Lorie Shaull/Wikimedia Commons The robots have their eyes on a lot of jobs. Is yours one?

If you’re looking for something else to worry about today, try searching for your own job title on this new web tool . It’s nice to look at, easy to use, and kind of a bummer for most of us.

Designed and developed by Dimitar Raykov and Mubashar Iqbal , it uses data from the 2013 report, "The Future of Employment: How susceptible are jobs to computerisation?" as well as data from the Bureau of Labor. The researchers for that study estimated 47 […]

Machine learning systems are a ‘land rush’ of opportunity for CIOs

Machine learning systems are a 'land rush' of opportunity for CIOs

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Machine learning is overtaking big data in Google searches, but the hype around artificial intelligence systems may not be hyped enough. Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee, co-authors of the forthcoming Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future , said some machine learning algorithms are improving faster than anticipated, thanks to enormous data sets and access to more compute power. And the rapid rate of change is opening up new avenues for machines and new opportunities for CIOs.

Brynjolfsson , director of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy (IDE) , and McAfee , principal scientist and […]

Visualizing the Jobs Lost to Automation

Visualizing the Jobs Lost to Automation

Visualizing the Jobs Lost to Automation

The employment landscape of the future will look very different than it does today.

While we’ve charted the automation potential of U.S. jobs before, today’s graphic from Henrik Lindberg perhaps tells the story more succinctly.In plain black and white, it shows the jobs that exist today in contrast to the jobs that are expected to disappear as a result of automation in the workplace. Though, technically speaking, it is applying the probabilities of the widely-cited Frey & Osborne (2013) study to U.S. jobs as of 2016 to give an expected value to each job […]

Visualizing The Jobs Lost To Automation

Visualizing The Jobs Lost To Automation

The employment landscape of the future will look very different than it does today.

(Click on image to enlarge) While we’ve charted the automation potential of U.S. jobs before, today’s graphic from Henrik Lindberg perhaps tells the story more succinctly. In plain black and white, it shows the jobs that exist today in contrast to the jobs that are expected to disappear as a result of automation in the workplace. Though, technically speaking, it is applying the probabilities of the widely-cited Frey & Osborne (2013) study to U.S. jobs as of 2016 to give an expected value to each […]

A robot revolution might be coming but don’t believe the doomsday media

A robot revolution might be coming but don’t believe the doomsday media

More general macroeconomic conditions have “swamped any effect of robotic displacement” From apocalypses to zombie coups, humans adore doomsday tales and it’s not completely clear why. While fiction is fine, reality is of course much better so if anyone who’s even remotely credible can make a strong case for the end of the world being nigh – ideally based on “hard” data that conveniently backs up that thesis— then we’ll gobble it up in a flash. The media is perhaps guiltiest of all.

This is what appears to have happened in the curious case of the robots.

Hundreds of plausible news […]

Ignore the jobs doomsayers

Ignore the jobs doomsayers

The jobs doomsday prediction is ahistorical because it suffers from the “presentism” disease identified by historians as a belief that the times we live in are unique. (Representational) Einstein said that if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its life believing it is stupid. Only 0.7 per cent and 11 per cent of India’s labour force work in information technology (IT) and manufacturing and yet, many pundits predict that India’s IT and manufacturing employment has peaked — let’s call it the jobs doomsday prediction — because of automation, robots, the immigration […]

Stay human, team up and beat the bots

For years, team-building and team leadership skills have been high on the wish-list of companies searching for executive talent, but the focus has always been on internal collaboration. Not any more. More and more businesses now want team players who also know how to get the most out of outsiders.

In an era of specialisation, even big businesses have to collaborate with outside contributors if cross-disciplinary projects are to be successfully completed. Even within organisations, some functions often require outside help; perhaps input in areas like IT, audit controls or other specialisations.

This creates challenges for managers with inwardly focused team […]

How education can keep you employed in the age of artificial intelligence and automation

How education can keep you employed in the age of artificial intelligence and automation

Hilya Nghiwete*
Windhoek

We all love technology and clutch our mobiles, tablets and other devices like they are our most treasured possessions. With the internet, technological advances and the changing face of every industry we are heading towards job-elimination because of automation in the workplace. This of course already happened with the first Industrial Revolution and then when the first computers and assembly lines were automated. People lost their jobs, certain professions became obsolete, but as humans we are nothing if not adaptable. Truly our saving grace.
This was highlighted during the World Economic Forum attended by African leaders, including […]