Half of Pierce County jobs could be replaced by robots | The News Tribune

Half of Pierce County jobs could be replaced by robots | The News Tribune

Stories of cashier-less grocery stores, self-driving cars and programmable lawyers have flooded the news in the past six months, kicking off a renewed debate over whether robots might soon dominate the global economy.

But how will the impending takeover of robots in the workplace affect Pierce County?

Roughly half of workers in Pierce County have jobs a University of Oxford study rated as having a high probability of becoming automated in the future, including positions in retail, food prep, truck driving, and the labor industry.The study’s authors — Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael A. Osborne — rated 702 jobs on the […]

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