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Robots, Jobs and Productivity in the Manufacturing Industry

Robots, Jobs and Productivity in the Manufacturing Industry

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The Association for Advancing Automation recently published a white paper discussing the impact of industrial robotics on productivity and employment in the manufacturing industry. We would like to share our thoughts about its main findings.

Figure 1 below illustrates the evolution of robot shipments and employment for almost 20 years. The relationship between those two is clearly visible. As the robot shipments slowed down (blue bars), like in 2001-2002 and 2007-2010, so did nonfarm employment (green bars). . The industrial robot shipments are linked with the growth in manufacturing labor productivity, as it can be seen in […]

Robots Don’t Create New Jobs For Us, Rather, Idle Human Beings Go Do New Things

We’ve yet another little report on what’s going to happen when the robots come to steal all our jobs. This one at least makes the point that while there have been hiccups before, interregnums if you like, past advances in technology have not left large parts of the population without work. So, why should this time be different? Entirely true that, although of course the claim from the other side is that robots are different and so therefore so will this time be.

However, I still think that the basic story being told here is wrong. Not entirely wrong, it’s […]

Automation to affect employment rate in Indian textile industry: Report

Automation to affect employment rate in Indian textile industry: Report

Image Courtesy: jacobinmag.com The textile and apparel industry of India, with recent declaration of ‘Special Package’, has an aim to create one crore new jobs in the sector, but according to a recent report by Texprocil – Ernst & Young, only 29 lakh jobs shall be created, owing to the possible technological advancements in the sector. The new technologies would lead to higher efficiency, but will however reduce job opportunities for the people of the country.

In the textile sector, particularly in spinning, machines like auto-coners and auto-splicers have reduced human intervention in the work by reducing the ‘man’ requirement […]

The race between machines and humans: Implications for growth, factor shares and jobs

The race between machines and humans: Implications for growth, factor shares and jobs

Concerns that new digital technologies, artificial intelligence, and robotics will create widespread technological non-employment are now widespread. Various recent labour market trends, ranging from declines in US labour force participation to increases in wage inequality and the share of capital in national income, are seen as harbingers of this new normal (e.g. Brynjolfsson and McAfee 2012, Akst 2014, Autor 2015, Karabarbounis and Neiman 2014, Oberfield and Raval 2014). A major shortcoming of the typical arguments about technological non-employment is that there is no clear reason why the effect of new technologies will be different this time than in the […]

Sub-anchor: Key factors affecting graduate employment

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Font size: For more on this story, we are joined in the studio now by CCTV’s Jin Yingqiao.Q1. Nowadays, unemployment among university graduates is a serious problem. Tell us some of the key factors behind this.Well, first of all it’s the economy. The dreams of graduates are competing with an economy growing at the slowest pace in a generation.The decline of export and de-capacity have led to a decrease in demand for labor force, which in turn has affected the employment of college graduates. Moreover, developing technologies have eliminated a number of jobs so […]

5 Important Skills You Require To Keep Your Job In The Next 10 Years

5 Important Skills You Require To Keep Your Job In The Next 10 Years

These are the five areas you need to develop to keep yourself employed in the next 10 years

We always read about what we should prepare or how we should brand ourselves at a job interview but we seldom speak about the skills that are required to keep ourselves employed over a period of time. The world is changing and it is changing fast. Old skills no longer matter, in fact, you will be stomped aside by the generational change leaving you know answers. Many believe that the future of work will transform in the next 10 years considering […]

How Job Automation Will Change Your Future

How Job Automation Will Change Your Future

How Job Automation Will Change Your Future – People Development Network How job automation will change your future

Awhile back I published an article here in People Development Magazine entitled “ 3 STEPS TO “DISRUPTIVE INNOVATION” PROOF YOUR CAREER “. The primary message is: you can and should monitor the career “landscape” in which you find yourself, both today and in the probable future. This is true for a number of reasons not the least of which is job automation.

While you may want to spend all your working years in one industry, if not one job, that industry, that […]

Job gap widens between college, high school grads

Job gap widens between college, high school grads

A new graduate proudly displays his diploma, May 9, 2009. Buy Photo A structural shift in the job market following the most recent economic recession has radically changed the composition of the American workforce, with four-year college graduates for the first time constituting a larger share of the workforce than those who got a high school diploma but don’t have a college degree, according to a report released Thursday by the Georgetown University Center on Education.

Researchers at the center found that out of the 11.6 million jobs created in the post-recession economy, 11.5 million went to people with at […]

North Carolina Reports on Local Job Loss from Automation

North Carolina Reports on Local Job Loss from Automation

Below is a rare local report about automation and its effects at ground level. It’s a 3-minute TV-news segment, but the piece does get the sense of general anxiety about the future of employment. One man sought retraining for a new computer-related career because automation was cutting into construction jobs. A recurring theme was that many job categories weren’t disappearing entirely, but automation was making them more efficient and therefore the workplaces need fewer workers overall.

Food service jobs are threatened in North Carolina because of the increasing use of ordering kiosks, like the one shown. North Carolina State […]

If Your Job Hasn’t Been Taken Over by Machines Yet, Just Wait

If Your Job Hasn't Been Taken Over by Machines Yet, Just Wait

Don’t pack up your cubicle quite yet. Though robots and automation are probably already transforming your day job, you have roughly a 60% chance of not losing your employment to a machine, according to a recent report from Forrester Research.

Automation and robotics can be seen in everything from manufacturing to logistics to food services and retail, but what are the jobs most likely to be taken over by machines? The proof may already be out there.

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