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Gen Z Know Automation Will Take Their Jobs

Gen Z Know Automation Will Take Their Jobs

Photo by Boxed Water Is Better on Unsplash Gen Z have their eyes on the prize, a world working with AI.

Gen Z, the generation that comes after Millennials, are graduating college and entering the workforce.

Growing up as digital natives, they know machine intelligence will scale in their generation as workers in the labor force. Those headlines about “robots” coming for our jobs? Well, Gen Z have an inkling. They are actually going to live it.The eldest of Gen Z are only about 24 now, in 2019 and the majority of them are still students. Gen Z is right […]

Growing Champions: Celebrating well-being on Independence Day

Growing Champions: Celebrating well-being on Independence Day

Independence means many things in Malaysia. It is a celebration of who we are and what we have achieved. Yet it’s not just recognition of a shared past but the potential of a shared future built on equitable wealth and well-being for all.

In Part One of this series exploring well-being in Malaysia, I highlighted the importance of regenerating opportunity, not simply redistributing it. There is no long-term reward in shuffling the deck. We want to add more cards to the table. But crucially, we need to go a step further to make sure everyone has the same chance to […]

Is de Blasio’s “robot tax” a good idea?

Is de Blasio’s “robot tax” a good idea?

Phonlamai Photo/Shutterstock New York City Mayor (and Democratic presidential primary candidate) Bill de Blasio has a plan to combat the effects of workplace automation, and while it’s not as inspiringly named as Andrew Yang’s $1,000 monthly ”Freedom Dividend,” the proposal is aimed at the same issue that Yang has built his campaign around: the loss of jobs due to automation.

Late last week, in an op-ed in the tech magazine Wired , de Blasio unveiled a “robot tax” plan to protect workers. It’s one of just a few major policy proposals in his platform, which includes a workers’ bill of […]

Manufacturing Adds 3,000 Jobs, Durable Goods Break Even

Manufacturing Adds 3,000 Jobs, Durable Goods Break Even

Bill Koenig, Senior Editor Manufacturing added 3,000 jobs in August, with durable goods breaking even.

Non-durable goods accounted for the entire net manufacturing job gain, according to a breakdown by industry issued today by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Within durable goods, various industries posted either small job gains or losses. Computer and electronic products added 2,300 jobs and non-metallic mineral products added 1,200. Machinery and fabricated metal products each lost 1,700 jobs.Other durable goods categories were up or down fewer than 1,000 jobs, including transportation equipment, which added 700.Manufacturing totaled 12.853 million jobs in August on a seasonally adjusted […]

NIOSH Looks Ahead to the ‘Future of Work’

NIOSH Looks Ahead to the ‘Future of Work’

To address emerging workplace safety and health issues, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) has launched a “Future of Work” initiative, according to Director John Howard, MD. PhonlamaiPhoto / iStock / Getty Images Plus / Getty Images “Swift and advanced innovations in technology, automation, and globalization demand a collaborative, forward-thinking approach,” Howard said in his Labor Day statement.

The Institute has assigned several centers and working groups throughout NIOSH to work internally and in collaboration with external partners and stakeholders to address issues presented by the future of work.

Centers and working groups involved in the Future of […]

China economic stimulus and PP: how demand could have been 71m tonnes lower

China economic stimulus and PP: how demand could have been 71m tonnes lower

China came to the rescue of the global economy in 2009. This wasn’t for altruistic reasons as a government study said that unless a huge stimulus programme was launched, 20m Chinese workers would return to the coastal cities from inland China after the Lunar New Year in 2009 without jobs because of the collapse of orders from the West for China’s manufactured goods due to the global financial crisis.

But who cares? Whatever the motives, some one-third of global economic growth in the ten years between 2009 and 2018 came from China, up from less than 20% in the decade […]

The Fastest Growing Jobs in America Don’t Require a College Degree

The Fastest Growing Jobs in America Don’t Require a College Degree

There’s a great future in panels. Photo: Michael S. Williamson/The Washington Post/Getty Images A college diploma is the new high-school degree. In a 21st-century economy, a higher education is the only reliable ticket to the middle class. We can’t solve inequality without solving the crisis of college affordability.

For decades now, liberals have taken these truths to be self-evident . After Ronald Reagan tore up the New Deal order, centrist Democrats found education a convenient panacea for middle-class decline: If differential access to quality schools and advanced skills were the leading drivers of America’s exploding inequality, then the problem could […]

Digitisation to unlock 1.2m jobs, ease SA’s unemployment woes

Digitisation to unlock 1.2m jobs, ease SA’s unemployment woes

Digitisation, machine learning and automation have the potential to create new jobs purely as a result of improved productivity. Digitisation and automation could result in a net gain of up to 1.2 million jobs in SA by 2030.

This is according to a new report, “The Future of Work in South Africa: Digitisation, productivity and job creation”, from McKinsey & Company.

It notes that technology-related gains could triple SA’s productivity growth, more than double growth in per capita income, and add more than a percentage point to its real GDP growth rate over the next decade.The report comes after the country’s […]

Do we need a robot tax?

Do we need a robot tax?

Industrial revolutions throughout history play out like this: repetitive and mundane jobs are automated by new technology, livelihoods evaporate, skills become obsolete, and in the process humans are compelled to retrain and find new work. Whether it’s textile workers or checkout assistants, lamplighters or petrol-pump attendants, automation shows little mercy.

In the early-19th century, during the first industrial revolution, traditional jobs dried up, the labour share of income fell, while corporate profits surged, and the gap between the wages of the rich and poor skyrocketed. Today, we could be doing the time warp again as the third and fourth industrial […]

Maritime Regulators To Weigh Opposing Views On Port Automation

Maritime Regulators To Weigh Opposing Views On Port Automation

The agency responsible for the health of the U.S. maritime sector will be considering the role that labor and politics play in automating port operations.

In comments submitted to the U.S. Maritime Administration (MarAd), Daniel Reiss, president of Automated Terminal Systems (ATS), said that it’s a mistake for terminal operators and port authorities to appease labor by introducing automation gradually.

"Experience in the automotive and steel industry has demonstrated that such an approach is not only inefficient it is counterproductive," Reiss said. "In both industries, management concluded that the effort was ‘just not worth it’ and shut down facilities rather than […]