The post-pandemic economic recovery – already underway, despite the pandemic being in the present rather than past tense – is already showing signs of a labour shortage. That could lead to higher wages in some cases as employers bid for more workers, but it could also see an uptick in automation as companies look for both predictability and cost-savings.
We’re already travelling down that path. A much-cited 2013 Oxford University study, for instance, predicted that machines might be able to perform half of all jobs in the next two decades. Others have followed up the study with research of their […]
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