Category: Automation Impact on Jobs

How automation could make us more human

How automation could make us more human

The robots are coming. Of that there is no doubt. But how relentless the march of automation will be—and how quickly it will transform the workplace and the workforce beyond recognition—depends on which particular report you read.

The McKinsey Global Institute recently issued a study on the subject, stating 50 percent of today’s work activities could be automated by 2055. This contrasts with research from Oxford University, which estimated in 2013 that 47 percent of US jobs were now at risk from automation. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, meanwhile, was a little less aggressive, concluding in its 2015 […]

Automation already a reality – fewer people working on processing lines

Automation already a reality - fewer people working on processing lines

Automation already a reality – fewer people working on processing lines

During a recent lecture held at Bocconi, one of FreshPlaza’s Italian editors talked about labour cost reduction in the fresh produce sector and about the technologies that can replace manual labour. She also brought the following examples of best practice:

> the processing plant at Mivor in Laces (BZ), one of the 7 cooperatives part of VI.P., the association of Val Venosta fresh produce cooperatives the revolution determined by optic graders such as those manufactured by Unitec, that can even monitor internal defects in cherries or separate stalks […]

Automation Is Here

Automation Is Here

Robotics, automation and artificial intelligence have the power to transform the workplace for all those employed, including senior management. Today everyone, especially senior leaders, must understand this challenge, stay ahead of it and create conditions to benefit from it. This is a sea change comparable to the industrial and agricultural revolutions in scope and effect. For those in the workforce, like past societal transformations, the digital/tech revolution involves disruption and displacement, and new ways and types of working.

Using U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and Occupational Information Network (O*Net) data, McKinsey Global Institute analyzed automation’s potential workplace effect by examining […]

How automation could make us more human

How automation could make us more human

The robots are coming. Of that there is no doubt. But how relentless the march of automation will be – and how quickly it will transform the workplace and the workforce beyond recognition – depends on which particular report you read.

The McKinsey Global Institute recently issued a study on the subject, stating 50% of today’s work activities could be automated by 2055. This contrasts with research from Oxford University, which estimated in 2013 that 47% of US jobs were now at risk from automation. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, meanwhile, was a little less aggressive, concluding in […]

38 percent of U.S. jobs could be lost to automation in the next 15 years

38 percent of U.S. jobs could be lost to automation in the next 15 years

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Should the Trump Administration be Worried About Automation?

Should the Trump Administration be Worried About Automation?

yoh4nn/istock In an interview with Axios’ s Mike Allen on Friday, US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said he was unconcerned about the possibility of machines replacing significant numbers of human workers in the near future, saying it was “not even on [the Trump administration’s] radar screen” and insisting that displacement would not be an issue for another 50-100 years. “In fact I’m optimistic,” he told Allen.

While there’s a healthy ongoing debate over just what impact automation will have on the workforce , Mnuchin’s assertion that it is not a matter of any particular urgency raised some eyebrows. “Just about […]

Trade Denialism Continues: Trade Really Did Kill Manufacturing Jobs

Trade Denialism Continues: Trade Really Did Kill Manufacturing Jobs

There have been a flood of opinion pieces and news stories in recent weeks wrongly telling people that it was not trade that led to the loss of manufacturing jobs in recent years, but rather automation. This means that all of those people who are worried about trade deficits costing jobs are simply being silly. The promulgators of the automation story want everyone to stop talking about trade and instead focus on education, technology or whatever other item they can throw out as a distraction.

This "automation rather than trade story" is the equivalent of global warming denialism for the […]

Do Androids Dream Of Electric Flat Whites?

Do Androids Dream Of Electric Flat Whites?

When we talk about “what’s next” for coffee, rarely does that conversation center on the barista. They are the unchangeable constant across coffee in all its forms—a living, breathing human who manages the machines, the “mano” in the “mano, miscela, macchina” upon which the espresso tradition was built. A human, standing behind a machine, waiting to serve coffee to the world: that’s a barista.

At least, it used to be.

Cafe X —started by 23-year-old college dropout Henry Hu—seeks to automate the making and serving of specialty coffee. But unlike, say, BRIGGO, the HAL-like coffee behemoth at the University of […]

Report claims robots could steal 18,000 jobs from workers in Barking and Dagenham

Report claims robots could steal 18,000 jobs from workers in Barking and Dagenham

Robts could take over 18,000 jobs in the borough report claims (photo credit: Radio Saigon) Robots could snatch the jobs of more than 18,000 workers in Barking and Dagenham by 2030, according to figures derived from a report released today.

A study by consultancy firm PricewaterhouseCoopers showed that 30 per cent of jobs in Britain are potentially under threat from automation and artificial intelligence.

The jobs must at risk are those in the wholesale, retail trade and manufacturing industry.The Post compared the findings against Office for National Statistics employment figures which showed the borough is disproportionately vulnerable to the robot takeover […]

AI and automation is changing labour landscape: Marc Benioff

AI and automation is changing labour landscape: Marc Benioff

Mar 27, 2017 (LBO) – Every individual, business, industry and government is being impacted by breakthroughs in computing power, connectivity, artificial intelligence, biotechnology and other innovative technologies, says Marc Beniof, CEO of Salesforce, a leading cloud computing company.

This revolution without boundaries is spreading with incredible velocity, he wrote in an article to the World Economic Forum. To meet the challenge, he said the future workforce will have to be equipped with necessary skills.

“By 2020, more people will have mobile phones than have electricity or running water in their homes or villages. Cars are becoming intelligent robots on wheels. Factories […]