Here’s a fun way to spend a long weekend: Contemplating whether you’ll be replaced by a robot.
Employers could feasibly swap out machines, using existing technology, for humans in 50 percent of today’s jobs, says a new McKinsey report.
That’s not just low-paying work but plenty of white collar employment as well, and that works out to $16 trillion in wages worldwide, and $2.7 trillion in the U.S.The are plenty of caveats to that projection — the biggest one is that the automation won’t happen until 2055, or maybe 2035, or maybe 2075?But it’s still the kind of big, headline grabbing […]
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