Tag: employment

RBR50 Executive Q&A: Ben Wolff, Sarcos Robotics

RBR50 Executive Q&A: Ben Wolff, Sarcos Robotics

As companies and organizations look to automate their tasks through robotics and other systems, they’re quickly finding that many more tasks still require human intelligence and flexibility. In those cases, human augmentation through the use of robots and powered exoskeletons can assist workers to become more productive, as well as prevent injuries. For companies, these systems can extend the capabilities of an aging workforce, or expand opportunities for workers who are challenged with physically demanding work.

Editor’s note : This is another in a series of executive Q&As with robotics industry leaders from companies within the RBR50 , in […]

Advantages and disadvantages of using smart contracts – How to create a smart contract?

Advantages and disadvantages of using smart contracts – How to create a smart contract?

A classic contract is an oral or written agreement with a set of conditions. In the modern world, the fulfillment of contract conditions is guaranteed by the state. If one of the parties does not comply with the terms of the agreement, the court will determine the offenders and oblige them to bear responsibility. Such contracts are constantly found in everyday life: when renting an apartment, insuring a car or finding employment.

There are difficulties with classic smart contracts development . The specialist must compile the text of the document, otherwise, there may be gaps and inaccuracies in the terms […]

Fact Check: Actually, the Trump Economy is Benefitting the Very People Democrats Claim It Isn’t

Fact Check: Actually, the Trump Economy is Benefitting the Very People Democrats Claim It Isn't

One of the trickier bits of political positioning facing Democrats this cycle is how to talk about the American economy. By nearly every metric, it’s performing quite well. Unemployment is low, growth is pretty strong, wages are rising, the stock market is up — and we’re in the midst of the longest overall US economic expansion in recorded history. Roughly 70 percent of voters are optimistic about both their personal financial situation and the national picture , and a relatively unpopular president consistently earns his highest marks on this issue, which happens to be at the top of the […]

Are Intelligent Machines Coming for Your Job and Your Wages?

Are Intelligent Machines Coming for Your Job and Your Wages?

This probably isn’t the next Megan Rapinoe. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer) photo credit: ASSOCIATED PRESS A specter haunts Europe, the United States, and the rest of the world: the specter of massive technological unemployment and, therefore, widespread immiseration.

Or at least we keep hearing it does, and we’ve been hearing it for centuries.

We keep hearing. And we keep waiting. And the specter never shows up.I doubt that it ever will. It’s certainly possible, and improving technology will continue to creatively destroy certain sectors. To use one example, the days of long-haul truck drivers might be numbered. In a recent paper in […]

Randy Johnson: He helped you find a job

Randy Johnson: He helped you find a job

Randy Johnson is retiring after three decades with Workforce Development Inc. His efforts helped thousands of people find jobs. For more than three decades, Randy Johnson’s job has been helping others find a job.

During a three-decade career at Workforce Development, the last 22 as executive director, Johnson stood at the nexus between people looking for work and employers looking for workers, using education and training to align the two.

Johnson, 66, retired earlier this month after 34 years at the employment nonprofit.During his tenure, more than 60,000 adults found living wage jobs and another 37,000 people on public assistance found […]

Unpleasant consequences of technological changes

Unpleasant consequences of technological changes

Santosh Kumar Dash

Change is good. At least that is what we believe when it comes to technology which makes yesterday’s technology obsolete. If you have Ola/Uber, Swiggy/Zomato, Paytm/FreeCharge/PhonePe, and Flipkart/Amazon in your smartphone, life becomes easy. But such disruptive technological changes too have unpleasant effects.

First, it leads to rise in unemployment. Nobel prize-winning economist, Joseph E Stiglitz believes that rapid technological changes pose bigger challenges to employment creation in short to medium-run. Low-skilled workers face biggest risks in future as firms around the globe adopt new-age technologies like automation, artificial intelligence, robots and e-commerce firms. They challenged brick […]

Jobs aren’t going anywhere

Jobs aren’t going anywhere

Photo: The Canadian Press The Fraser Institute believes the dire predictions of substantial job losses due to automation are wrong.

The Canadian public policy think-tank on Tuesday published an essay—titled Artificial Intelligence and Employment: Will History Repeat?—that examined the future of the national work force, and it indicated there will be plenty of jobs for humans.

“While some believe the rise of artificial intelligence and other technologies will lead to massive unemployment, the effect will likely resemble past experiences with other new technologies,” essay author Steven Globerman said in a press release. “New jobs will emerge as businesses and workers adapt.”A […]

Robots won’t take your job. A retiring Boomer will give you theirs

Robots won't take your job. A retiring Boomer will give you theirs

This isn’t going to happen anytime soon. Media reports often paint a dire picture of technological change and automation, spawning a future world of massive job loss and less employment. And yet, a labour shortage — not a glut due to mass unemployment — looms in Canada thanks to retiring baby boomers and our aging population.

Furthermore, history suggests that when technological change alters the employment mix, the economy grows, creating new jobs and more opportunity.

For example, a study of census results for the United Kingdom since 1871 by Stewart, De and Cole notes that, despite fears of job destruction, […]

Could automation be the key to a better work/life balance?

Could automation be the key to a better work/life balance?

In recent years, there has been a lot of discussion about the future of work and how automation can transform workplaces for the better. Equally, there has been a lot of dialogue about whether all the new advancements in technology could make human workers obsolete. So, what do you think? Is automation a good thing?

The Possible Impact on Jobs
Analysis from a March 2017 report by PwC about automation in the workplace, suggests that up to 30 per cent of UK jobs, 35 per cent of German jobs, and 38 per cent of US jobs could potentially […]

AI, automation unlikely to lead to mass unemployment

AI, automation unlikely to lead to mass unemployment

Despite dire predictions, history and demographics suggest that burgeoning technologies (including automation, artificial intelligence and robotization) will not lead to substantial job losses, finds a new essay series released today by Vancouver-based Fraser Institute, an independent, non-partisan Canadian public policy think-tank. “While some believe the rise of artificial intelligence and other technologies will lead to massive unemployment, the effect will likely resemble past experiences with other new technologies—new jobs will emerge as businesses and workers adapt,” said Steven Globerman, Fraser Institute senior fellow, contributing editor and author of the essay Artificial Intelligence and Employment: Will History Repeat?

A separate […]