OECD report claims “only” 14% of jobs will be lost to automation

OECD report claims “only” 14% of jobs will be lost to automation

Fewer than originally thought will be the people at risk of losing their jobs to robots, according to a report by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development.

Fewer does not mean few. Up to 14% or 66 million of the jobs in the 32 most developed economies could be automated; however, aspects of every job may be transformed according to the director of employment, labour, and social affairs at the OECD Stefano Scarpetta .

Previous estimates by Oxford academics Carl Frey and Michael Osborne raised the number to just under 50%, the Financial Times reported.The most difficult jobs to automate […]

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