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The future of employment

Carl Benedikt Frey† and Michael A. IN BRIEF A FUTURE THAT WORKS: AUTOMATION, EMPLOYMENT, AND PRODUCTIVITY Advances in robotics, artificial intelligence, and machine learning are ushering in a new age A changing world demands new approaches to leadership, talent management, and organization. 1. 0. Research insights, debate and discussion on the future of work and employment. But things can change The conversation about the future of jobs and skills is one of the most important in education. Tax Preparers. Workforce Strategy for the. What will the help wanted ads look like in two years? In five? In ten? And […]

Hale: Fighting automation fears with creativity

Hale: Fighting automation fears with creativity

In 1930, a time of true depression and fear of future, the economist John Maynard Keynes predicted that 15-hour work days would be the norm for his grandkids. Clearly, things haven’t quite worked out that way.

While many have wisely predicted that new technology would increase prosperity and lower drudgery, the economy is still fraught with worry for most families, certainly those I know. And we are watching our normal disappear. Those jobs and industries we counted on to keep people working are disappearing.

Robots can flip burgers and drop fry baskets into hot bubbling grease, and they can be timed […]

Is tech dividing America?

Is tech dividing America?

Pablo Declan for POLITICO When Americans consider how technology has changed their lives, they tend to focus on how the internet and smartphones have altered how they watch TV, connect with friends, or how they shop. But those changes pale in comparison to how technology has already restructured the economy, shaking up the workforce and shifting opportunity to tech-centric urban hubs. As artificial intelligence quickly moves from fiction to daily reality, that revolution will arguably become much more consequential.

Economists broadly agree that technology will continue to be an engine of economic growth. But it also will upend old certainties […]

Maybe STEM Isn’t the Future After All. Soft Skills Are Coming on Strong

Maybe STEM Isn’t the Future After All. Soft Skills Are Coming on Strong

Turns out that soft skills aren’t so soft after all. New research finds that from 2000 to 2012, jobs that require “non-cognitive” skills, such as the ability to communicate and work in teams, grew much faster than jobs mainly requiring skills measurable by IQ or achievement tests. An error has occurred

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Automation, Not Apocalypse

Automation, Not Apocalypse

Which occupations are expected to experience growth by 2030?

You might have already noticed, but sometimes the conversation around automation and the future of work can get a bit hysterical. "The robots are coming" is one common refrain; "We’re all going to lose our jobs" is another.

However, while people are rightly concerned about how evolving technology will affect their professional and financial well-beings, the work apocalypse probably won’t happen. In fact, Future of Skills: Employment in 2030, a new research report from Pearson, Nesta, and the Oxford Martin School, outlines several jobs and skills that are expected to become […]

Since a lot of jobs are going to be automated what skills should

Some office automation equipment will foster jobs that require less skill than do manual operations, but many jobs found in an automated office require a higher were increased by automation and that this would help them obtain salary increases, even though only 30 percent of them had achieved such increases since 13 Jul 2017 Similarly, as automation reduces the need for administrative skills, other attributes will become more sought after in the workplace. 19th century, in which a group of English textile artisans protested the automation . "The dire predictions that robots are taking our jobs are overblown," Lund […]

Fighting The Future: Teamsters Demand UPS Ban Drones And Autonomous Vehicles

Fighting The Future: Teamsters Demand UPS Ban Drones And Autonomous Vehicles

from the giving-unions-a-bad-name dept

As I’ve occasionally mentioned in the past, my undergraduate studies were in (of all things) "industrial and labor relations," which involved many, many courses of study on the history of unions, collective bargaining and the economics around such things. I tend to have a fairly nuanced view of unionizing that I won’t get into here, other than to note that a big part of the reasons why unions get a bad name is when they take indefensible positions that they think will "protect" their members, but which actually are long term suicidal. This is one […]

May’s Davos speech inspired more fear than optimism for the next industrial revolution

May’s Davos speech inspired more fear than optimism for the next industrial revolution

Very little of what the Prime Minister said about emerging technologies was inaccurate or unimportant – the issue is that she said very little (Source: Getty) Reviews of Theresa May’s speech about the digital age in Davos last Friday have been rather scathing.

The room at the World Economic Forum is said to have been half-empty, with officials favouring a restroom break over an address that was described by an EU official to a journalist from Politico as “literally artificial intelligence”.

Perhaps this is a bit harsh, for very little of what the Prime Minister said about emerging technologies was inaccurate […]

Future of jobs automation

S. You say, “is that just because of low cost?” No, no. jobs could be automated within the next two decades. May 5, 2017 The rise of machines will continue to affect the job market, but as history has shown us, the pros of AI and automation outweigh the cons. The future of jobs: Automation technologies, robotics, and artificial intelligence. As robots, automation and artificial intelligence perform more tasks and there is massive disruption of jobs, experts say a A group of economists, tech entrepreneurs, and academics discuss whether technological advances will automate tasks more quickly than the United […]

The future of work in Africa is uncertain despite technology’s promise or perhaps because of it

The future of work in Africa is uncertain despite technology’s promise or perhaps because of it

A lot has been written about how the deployment of new technologies could help African countries solve, or even leapfrog, some of the many developmental problems they face on a daily basis. But technological advances also do bring their own challenges.

Primary among those concerns is that everything from digital connectivity to artificial intelligence to the deployment of robots do not hold much promise in overcoming the biggest obstacle facing most countries: how to create meaningful, large-scale employment for their fast-growing youthful populations.

This is in part why The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has kicked off an initiative to research […]