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 about whether robots might soon dominate the global economy.
But how will the rise of robots in the workplace affect Thurston County?
Roughly 40 percent of workers in Thurston County have jobs a University of Oxford study has rated as having a high probability of becoming automated in the future, including jobs as retail sales clerks, food workers, cashiers, and office clerks.The study’s authors — Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael A. Osborne — rated 702 jobs on […]
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