Category: Automation Impact on Jobs

Lim Swee Say reveals workforce predictions

Lim Swee Say reveals workforce predictions

Tharman blasts HR in Budget attack on ageism HR leaders have been urged by Deputy PM Tharman Shanmugaratnam to stop their “unstated discrimination” against older workers looking for jobs.

Are you asking illegal interview questions? Have you ever asked a job applicant how old they are? If you have, you might be breaking the law. A leading Singapore employment lawyer looks at which interview questions could land you in hot water.

Advancements in technology worldwide would drive the creation of new jobs, according to Minister for Manpower Lim Swee Say . In a speech at the G20 […]

Half of All Retail Jobs Could Be Gone in 10 Years

Half of All Retail Jobs Could Be Gone in 10 Years

With all the focus on immigration’s effects on U.S. jobs, it may be that many are missing the bigger story of technological disruption .

With automation already displacing waves of workers across industries, the declining retail segment sticks out as a segment particularly vulnerable to cheaper, more efficient alternatives to human capital . (See also: What is the One Job Automation Has Eliminated in the Past 60 Years? ) ‘Stranded Workers’

A recent report conducted by Cornerstone Capital Group suggests that 47% of the 16 million Americans currently employed in the retail sector are at risk of becoming “stranded workers.” […]

HALF of American retail workers could be replaced by robots, chilling new study finds

HALF of American retail workers could be replaced by robots, chilling new study finds

Nearly half of Americans working in retail are at risk of losing their job to a robot, a new study has revealed.

An analysis has found up to 7.5 million jobs that deal with merchandise are set to be automated over the next decade.

The researchers discovered that those who work as cashiers have the highest risk of being replaced – and 73 percent of those positions are held by women.Scroll down for video An analysis has found up to 7.5 million jobs that deal with merchandise are set to be automated over the next decade– leaving behind a large portion […]

NONFICTION | Software developer argues robots will impact economy

Bob Funk
Contributing writer

For those who worry about the future for their loved ones, and others in general, add another dire prediction to the menu of impending disasters looming over the horizon.
In addition to global warming and natural resource depletion, a crushing national debt, and an arc of political, economic, and social instability across Africa and the Middle East and its causal relationship to global terrorism, now add the rise of robots.Anyone concerned with the future of employment and work should read “The Rise of Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future,” written by Martin Ford, a […]

Automation Technology Will Put 6 To 7.5 Million Jobs In Peril

Automation Technology Will Put 6 To 7.5 Million Jobs In Peril

Technological unemployment is already affecting the prodigious sectors that contribute majorly to the economy. By now, we know that automation can lead to temporary and permanent unemployment in predominantly profitable sectors. The most significant aspect of automation technology powering every industry is due to precise and efficient output. A recent study notes that 4 out of 10 jobs globally would be lost by 2021 due to the growing adoption of automation in every sector. Automation technology and robots already cost millions of jobs in every economy, and Cornerstone capital survey says that this is not just it.

According to a […]

What and where are the jobs of the future?

What and where are the jobs of the future?

Joe Schoendorf used to make a list of all the jobs that he thought were going to disappear. When that got too long, he switched to making a list of jobs that would not be obliterated by changes in technology, in accelerating automation and artificial intelligence.

That list, he says, is very short. And getting shorter. This worries him deeply – especially when he sees such trends combined with the fundamental deterioration in school education standards in the US, especially in subjects like mathematics.

Schoendorf is not alone in his concern about the jobs of the future. What makes it more […]

Tax wealth and consumption rather than income: automation is killing jobs

, by Alan Kohler. Underemployment has been rising steadily for 40 years and is now the highest it has ever been. And it’s a global trend — not confined to Australia. This is why real wages are now falling, which is to say that average wage growth is below the rate of inflation (1.9 per cent versus 2.1 per cent). … The economics profession is struggling to account for this, and officialdom isn’t even trying. … Automation is creating a steady tide of unemployment: Here’s a guess about what’s going on: in thousands of ways, every day, technology and […]

Work In Retail? There’s A Robot Getting Ready To Take Your Job

Work In Retail? There’s A Robot Getting Ready To Take Your Job

As retailers install self-checkout systems, proximity beacons that flash offers to shoppers’ phones, and invest in robots that replenish shelves, they’re likely to need fewer and fewer workers in the coming decade. A new analysis finds that up to 7.5 million jobs are at risk in U.S. retail, with women and rural areas particularly affected.

The last two years has seen a string of retail bankruptcies and store closures, with once storied names like J.C. Penney, RadioShack, Macy’s, and Sears under pressure as never before. Now analysts say retailers are likely to turn to automation as they try to end […]

How will robots change the agricultural industry in Arizona?

How will robots change the agricultural industry in Arizona?

Workers at Abby Lee Farms in Phoenix use stilts to help them reach the top of the tomato plants, which can reach near the ceiling of the greenhouse. (Photo by Josh Orcutt/Cronkite News)

PHOENIX – Each day, workers at Abby Lee Farms walk down the aisles – sometimes on stilts – to inspect, prune and hand pick tomatoes on the 3-acre, indoor facility in Phoenix.

Each tomato gets physically touched by one of the 12 workers at least once, sometimes two or three times, a week, general manager Matt Sanchez said.These employees also decide if it’s too hot or too cold […]

UAE jobs: Mind the (skills) gap

UAE jobs: Mind the (skills) gap

Experts across the Middle East and North Africa (Mena) region have stressed the importance of properly utilising today’s young workforce, especially as the region prepares to tackle the challenges stemming from the fourth industrial revolution.

The Mena region is endowed with a young, growing, and increasingly well-educated population, which, if skilled for tomorrow’s jobs and offered new and productive employment opportunities, has the potential to significantly enhance the region’s growth. Across the region, high-skilled employment stands at 21 per cent on average, while middle-skilled roles account for 66 per cent of all formal sector jobs. It was found that the […]