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Wages in Basildon are falling due to the rising number of ‘low-skilled’ jobs – and the problem looks set to get worse

Wages in Basildon are falling due to the rising number of 'low-skilled' jobs - and the problem looks set to get worse

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WAGES are falling in Basildon due to the number of low skilled jobs and there are fears that many jobs could be lost due to new developments in technology.

While the UK on average has seen salaries rise by as much as 9 per cent, Basildon has seen wages drop by 4 per cent, a council report has revealed.The report says the problem is largely down to many of the jobs in the borough being low skilled and within sectors such as retail, financial services and manual labour.It goes on […]

Rewriting the future of work

Rewriting the future of work

Technology. Job applicants during a written interview recently. Fully automated jobs could render many people jobless. File photo Much has been written about the “future of work,” and much of it makes for gloomy reading. Study after study predicts that automation will upend entire industries and leave millions unemployed. A 2013 paper by two Oxford professors even suggested that machines could replace 47 per cent of jobs in the United States within “a decade or two.”

Conclusions like these sustain the narrative that the future will inevitably be jobless. And yet this view is favoured primarily by the corporate sector […]

National Leader In Manufacturer Highlights Need For Workers, Immigration During Iowa Visit

National Leader In Manufacturer Highlights Need For Workers, Immigration During Iowa Visit

View Slideshow 1 of 3 Kirkwood’s Industrial Technologies Dean Dan Martin shows off one of the school’s manufacturing training labs to college president Lori Sundberg and Jay Timmons, CEO of the National Association of Manufacturers.

The head of a U.S. manufacturing group highlighted the need for workers and immigration reform during a visit to Iowa.

Job retraining and immigration reform could help fill more positions in Iowa; those were some of the messages from the head of the National Association of Manufacturers.Staffers with NAM made stops at Sukup Manufacturing, a grain bin and metal building company in Sheffield, and […]

This 2020 Candidate Puts His Money on Universal Income

This 2020 Candidate Puts His Money on Universal Income

America needs a new vision of what it means for humans to work. That is the unique message of entrepreneur Andrew Yang, a man who hopes – against all odds – to ride his vision to the White House. Even in a large presidential primary field – and the 2020 roster of legitimate or semi-legitimate contenders is shaping up as the largest in party history – there are Americans who fill out the qualifying forms every four years, only to be completely ignored and then forgotten.

On paper, Andrew Yang is one of those Democratic presidential candidates. But he’s more […]

UBI explained: Is UBI a socialist scheme?

UBI explained: Is UBI a socialist scheme?

This is the fourth part in a series on the Universal Basic Income. Read part one What is Universal Basic Income? , part two Is a minimum wage programme better than Universal Basic Income? , and part three How can we implement a Universal Basic Income?

Despite having experimental evidence that points overwhelmingly in favour of further research into UBI, many dissidents of the scheme are still wary of giving “free money” to the masses. Their argument is that by doing so, we would encourage a culture where people would not be incentivised to work as their basic needs […]

Industry 4.0 and the changing job landscape

Industry 4.0 and the changing job landscape

The world as we know it is on the brink of a revolution, driven by emerging technologies that are set to fundamentally alter our lives in unprecedented and unanticipated ways. This shift to Industry 4.0, also known as the Fourth Industrial Revolution, hinges off the increasing pervasiveness of digitisation.

As machines become more ‘intelligent’ and capable of learning, they are able to perform more and more tasks that were previously not possible. While this opens up many possibilities, it also means that the job landscape will become a very different place. As machines take over many mundane, repetitive tasks, some […]

UBI explained: Is UBI a socialist scheme?

UBI explained: Is UBI a socialist scheme?

This is the fourth part in a series on the Universal Basic Income. Read part one What is Universal Basic Income? , part two Is a minimum wage programme better than Universal Basic Income? , and part three How can we implement a Universal Basic Income?

Despite having experimental evidence that points overwhelmingly in favour of further research into UBI, many dissidents of the scheme are still wary of giving “free money” to the masses. Their argument is that by doing so, we would encourage a culture where people would not be incentivised to work as their basic needs […]

Choosing a career? Consider the jobs and skills that won’t go out of style

Choosing a career? Consider the jobs and skills that won’t go out of style

There will be no shortage of career options for future generations as long as they plan ahead and acquire the rights skills, writes Lisa Denny from the University of Tasmania , in this piece republished from The Conversation.

Sensationalist claims that 40% of jobs in Australia won’t exist in the future are unhelpful for young Australians thinking about entering the workforce. The reality is some jobs will no longer exist, new jobs will be created and most jobs will undergo some form of transformation. The skills we need for work are changing, but young Australians can plan for these […]

The future of work – golden opportunity or potential disaster?

The future of work – golden opportunity or potential disaster?

The implications of a changing future world of work lie beyond the insomnia of business people. The accelerated automation of work threatens employment and the social contract underpinning society, writes Deidre Samson .

The big, bad, much-touted Fourth Industrial Revolution is truly with us. Driverless cars, delivery drones and robots, and digital assistants making dinner reservations are all a reality and no longer science fiction.

The writing is on the wall. Despite the best efforts of Donald Trump, the world continues to globalise and China continues to rise as a power. Changing demographics herald a new world with different values, […]

Automation: As machines and systems do more and more of the work, how will we adapt to that reality?

Automation: As machines and systems do more and more of the work, how will we adapt to that reality?

On a global scale jobs are becoming increasingly outsourced to developing countries for their cheap labor, and while there is absolutely a conversation to be had on the humanitarian issue of exploitation, I’d like to focus on jobs themselves. More specifically, how technological leaps and automation have affected the job market, and what that means for the future of the world.

Globalization has definitely played a huge role in the restructuring of the world economy, but many of the industries that once dominated domestic employment are seemingly non-existent In the entities that currently exist in these industries, the type of […]