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Top 5 reality checks if you think you can’t lose your job to a robot

Top 5 reality checks if you think you can't lose your job to a robot

Inside the production facility of La Colombe coffee factory at 6366 Norton Center Dr. on Jan. 24, 2017 in Norton Shores, Mich. La Colombe started production over two weeks ago and uses local milk to produce their canned draft latte beverages. (Joel Bissell | MLive.com) (Joel Bissell) Global accounting firm PwC recently studied the potential impact of automation on jobs in the United Kingdom, comparing it to three other economies, including the United States.

The results: The U.S. could lose up to 38 percent of its jobs to technology – including artificial intelligence and robots – by the early 2030s.

Among […]

How automation could make us more human

How automation could make us more human

The robots are coming. Of that there is no doubt. But how relentless the march of automation will be—and how quickly it will transform the workplace and the workforce beyond recognition—depends on which particular report you read.

The McKinsey Global Institute recently issued a study on the subject, stating 50 percent of today’s work activities could be automated by 2055. This contrasts with research from Oxford University, which estimated in 2013 that 47 percent of US jobs were now at risk from automation. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, meanwhile, was a little less aggressive, concluding in its 2015 […]

Automation already a reality – fewer people working on processing lines

Automation already a reality - fewer people working on processing lines

Automation already a reality – fewer people working on processing lines

During a recent lecture held at Bocconi, one of FreshPlaza’s Italian editors talked about labour cost reduction in the fresh produce sector and about the technologies that can replace manual labour. She also brought the following examples of best practice:

> the processing plant at Mivor in Laces (BZ), one of the 7 cooperatives part of VI.P., the association of Val Venosta fresh produce cooperatives the revolution determined by optic graders such as those manufactured by Unitec, that can even monitor internal defects in cherries or separate stalks […]

Automation Is Here

Automation Is Here

Robotics, automation and artificial intelligence have the power to transform the workplace for all those employed, including senior management. Today everyone, especially senior leaders, must understand this challenge, stay ahead of it and create conditions to benefit from it. This is a sea change comparable to the industrial and agricultural revolutions in scope and effect. For those in the workforce, like past societal transformations, the digital/tech revolution involves disruption and displacement, and new ways and types of working.

Using U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and Occupational Information Network (O*Net) data, McKinsey Global Institute analyzed automation’s potential workplace effect by examining […]

How automation could make us more human

How automation could make us more human

The robots are coming. Of that there is no doubt. But how relentless the march of automation will be – and how quickly it will transform the workplace and the workforce beyond recognition – depends on which particular report you read.

The McKinsey Global Institute recently issued a study on the subject, stating 50% of today’s work activities could be automated by 2055. This contrasts with research from Oxford University, which estimated in 2013 that 47% of US jobs were now at risk from automation. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, meanwhile, was a little less aggressive, concluding in […]

38 percent of U.S. jobs could be lost to automation in the next 15 years

38 percent of U.S. jobs could be lost to automation in the next 15 years

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Do Androids Dream Of Electric Flat Whites?

Do Androids Dream Of Electric Flat Whites?

When we talk about “what’s next” for coffee, rarely does that conversation center on the barista. They are the unchangeable constant across coffee in all its forms—a living, breathing human who manages the machines, the “mano” in the “mano, miscela, macchina” upon which the espresso tradition was built. A human, standing behind a machine, waiting to serve coffee to the world: that’s a barista.

At least, it used to be.

Cafe X —started by 23-year-old college dropout Henry Hu—seeks to automate the making and serving of specialty coffee. But unlike, say, BRIGGO, the HAL-like coffee behemoth at the University of […]

Report claims robots could steal 18,000 jobs from workers in Barking and Dagenham

Report claims robots could steal 18,000 jobs from workers in Barking and Dagenham

Robts could take over 18,000 jobs in the borough report claims (photo credit: Radio Saigon) Robots could snatch the jobs of more than 18,000 workers in Barking and Dagenham by 2030, according to figures derived from a report released today.

A study by consultancy firm PricewaterhouseCoopers showed that 30 per cent of jobs in Britain are potentially under threat from automation and artificial intelligence.

The jobs must at risk are those in the wholesale, retail trade and manufacturing industry.The Post compared the findings against Office for National Statistics employment figures which showed the borough is disproportionately vulnerable to the robot takeover […]

AI and automation is changing labour landscape: Marc Benioff

AI and automation is changing labour landscape: Marc Benioff

Mar 27, 2017 (LBO) – Every individual, business, industry and government is being impacted by breakthroughs in computing power, connectivity, artificial intelligence, biotechnology and other innovative technologies, says Marc Beniof, CEO of Salesforce, a leading cloud computing company.

This revolution without boundaries is spreading with incredible velocity, he wrote in an article to the World Economic Forum. To meet the challenge, he said the future workforce will have to be equipped with necessary skills.

“By 2020, more people will have mobile phones than have electricity or running water in their homes or villages. Cars are becoming intelligent robots on wheels. Factories […]

Economic insecurity stares at us

Economic insecurity stares at us

Kieran Madden

Many pinned Trump’s election and the Brexit vote as being fueled by people’s fear of losing their way of life.

When it comes to economic insecurity, I think they are bang on.It is likely that those with less formal education and skills voted for change in both situations not because they were ignorant or did not know any better, but, because they see their working life hanging by a thread.Uncertainty breeds fear, and a society driven by fear tends towards dysfunction.Is this fear rational? Many factors are making it clear that the generally stable post-war economic order is giving […]