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With its ‘lights-off factory’, iPhone manufacturer Foxconn leads in Industry 4.0

With its ‘lights-off factory’, iPhone manufacturer Foxconn leads in Industry 4.0

Shanghai-listed Foxconn Industrial Internet Co Ltd (FII), a unit of Apple’s largest manufacturing contractor Foxconn, said its “lights-off ” factory has received recognition at the World Economic Forum this month. The company’s Shenzen plant made it onto a shortlist of “state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities that serve as world leaders” in how to successfully adopt and integrate cutting-edge technologies, according to WEF.

Lights-off factories are highly automated and make use of robots in the production line, hence requiring less light – and perhaps more importantly, less human workers. Foxconn is expected to slash tens of thousands of jobs as it moves forward […]

Majority of Irish people think robots are coming for our jobs – survey

Majority of Irish people think robots are coming for our jobs - survey

1 Stock image Three out of four Irish people think automation and robots will cause unemployment, a new survey of 1000 people claims.

However, the iReach survey also says that most people believe robots will be good for the economy.

The poll claims that just 16pc of us see “no threat” to employment in Ireland as advances are made in technology. And 76pc of Irish people believe that job automation will contribute to a rise in unemployment here.However, 55pc view job automation as “positive for the Irish economy”. Almost everyone (94pc) believes that “large scale job automation” will occur at some […]

Irish people feel almost certain that large scale job automation is coming

Irish people feel almost certain that large scale job automation is coming

Ninety four percent of Irish people believe that large scale job automation will occur at some point in the future, with 46% predicting this eventuality will come to pass in the very near future.

This is according to a study by iReach. The nationally representative survey of 1001 people found that no such certainty is apparent when considering the consequences either positive or negative of such automation.

When thinking about the impact of job automation on the productivity and prosperity of the Irish economy, 55% view it as a positive, with those who view the impact as a negative slightly further […]

Automation threatens a quarter United States jobs by 2030

Automation threatens a quarter United States jobs by 2030

For many sectors of the USA economy, the future of work is automation. Though the United States is in the middle of its second-longest expansion in history, and jobs data suggest that the economy remains healthy, many business leaders and economists have suggested in surveys that the United States could slip into a recession in 2020. "Similarly, the productivity and wage gains brought by automation can result in workers having more disposable income, which increases consumption and hence employment in other industries".

But with new advances in artificial intelligence, it’s not just industrial and warehouse robots that will alter the […]

Automation poses threat to Irish jobs, new survey finds

Automation poses threat to Irish jobs, new survey finds

I, robot: A customer, right, looks at a Kokoro Company humanoid robot at the reception desk of Henn na Hotel, in Nagasaki, Japan Three out of four Irish people think automation and robots will cause unemployment, a new survey claims.

However, the iReach poll also says that most people believe robots will be good for the economy, estimating that the jobs under threat may exclude their own. The poll of 1,000 people found that just 16pc see "no threat" to employment in Ireland as advances are made in technology.

And 76pc of Irish people believe that job automation will contribute to […]

How can you prepare for the future of work? The answer is not “learn to code.”

How can you prepare for the future of work? The answer is not “learn to code.”

Cover of Ellen Shell’s new book The Job. On the latest episode of Recode Decode , journalist and Boston University professor Ellen Shell joined Recode’s Kara Swisher in studio to talk about her latest book, The Job: Work and Its Future in a Time of Radical Change .

Shell explained why some of the conventional wisdom about the future of work is misguided and offered pragmatic advice for people entering an increasingly automated job market. She warned that the most at-risk jobs are “mid-skill” ones that are expensive for employers, which includes most software developers.

“It’s not necessarily the low-level routine […]

Manpower Group CEO shares insights on workforce investment, automation impact on employment

Manpower Group CEO shares insights on workforce investment, automation impact on employment

Share AI, robotics and other forms of smart automation have the potential to bring great economic benefits, but there are also concerns that they may displace many existing jobs. However, Jonas Prising, CEO of Manpower Group, argues that, instead of eliminating jobs, many companies are using technology to expand their workforce.

“What we are seeing is technology is augmenting the capability of humans rather than replacing,” Prising said, “People focus a lot of the discussions around the threat of job destruction, but our researches show that the amount of jobs that are going to be directly eliminated as percentage point […]

It Turns Out That Socialism is Very Popular in America

It Turns Out That Socialism is Very Popular in America

Above: Democratic Socialists of America protest in Washington, DC (Credit: Washington.carpe-diem.events) The following is part one of a two-part essay on the reasons for the growth of Socialism in 2010s America . Above: Residents protest evictions in San Francisco, where Sillicon Valley’s gentrification has resulted in skyrocketing housing costs and growing homelessness (credit: Zelda Bronstein, The Nation /Ted Gullicksen, Antievictionmappingproject.net).

One out of three millennials in Donald Trump’s America embrace socialism . That number rises to nearly half of all millennial Democrats. More millennials voted for Bernie Sanders, a self-described Democratic Socialist, in the 2016 Democratic primaries than for Hillary […]

Commission: Put People First in Drive to Automate Jobs

Commission: Put People First in Drive to Automate Jobs

FILE – Robots work on the cab of a 2019 Ram pickup at the Fiat Chrysler Automobiles Sterling Heights Assembly Plant in Sterling Heights, Mich., Oct. 22, 2018. Manufacturing is one are where robots are part of the workforce. GENEVA —

The world of work is going through a major transformation. Technological advances are creating new jobs and at the same time leaving many people behind as their skills are no longer needed. A new study by the International Labor Organization’s Global Commission on the Future of Work addresses the many uncertainties arising from this new reality.

The International Labor Organization […]

Swept under the office carpet

Swept under the office carpet

Fair employment and work conditions are hardly seen as health determinants

In the wide range of causes that can lead to poor health and disease, the workplace, as a spate of recent studies suggest, is an under-reported but significant factor.

For example, an adverse work environment can cause respiratory infections, vector and parasitic diseases, heart ailments, stroke, mental, behavioural and neurological disorders, becoming over-weight and getting skin diseases, among other medical emergencies. Right to health Stress alone, at work, can manifest itself in the form of extreme fatigue, heart palpitation, excessive sleeping, insomnia, gastrointestinal problems, diarrhoea, constipation and, dermatological […]