Digitisation to unlock 1.2m jobs, ease SA’s unemployment woes

Digitisation to unlock 1.2m jobs, ease SA’s unemployment woes

Digitisation, machine learning and automation have the potential to create new jobs purely as a result of improved productivity. Digitisation and automation could result in a net gain of up to 1.2 million jobs in SA by 2030.

This is according to a new report, “The Future of Work in South Africa: Digitisation, productivity and job creation”, from McKinsey & Company.

It notes that technology-related gains could triple SA’s productivity growth, more than double growth in per capita income, and add more than a percentage point to its real GDP growth rate over the next decade.The report comes after the country’s […]

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