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Robots are responsible for low wages, Trump and the Brexit

Robots are responsible for low wages, Trump and the Brexit

For decades, economic textbooks have highlighted the golden relationship between productivity and wages. As workers are able to produce more, employees reap the gains in the form of higher wages.

But this is no longer the case. View gallery . Wages and productivity climbed in lockstep between 1950 and 1980. However, there is a striking divergence between the 1980s and today. Even with the unemployment rate near multi-decade lows, Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen highlighted concerns about the lack of wage growth and underemployment during her speech at Harvard last month.

“We’re close to an unemployment rate that I think most […]

Book review: The Rise Of The Robots

Book review: The Rise Of The Robots

The Rise Of The Robots—Technology And The Threat Of Mass Unemployment: By Martin Ford, Oneworld Publications, 334 pages, Rs.599. If the Industrial Revolution introduced the assembly-line production concept in factories, the 1950s and 1960s saw companies like General Motors introduce robotics on shop floors. These developments, however, will pale in comparison to what is in store for the human workforce a few decades from now, given the acceleration in capabilities of software automation and artificial intelligence (AI) driven predictive algorithms.

The Rise Of The Robots—Technology And The Threat Of Mass Employment by Martin Ford is a well-researched attempt to […]

Robots, Jobs and Productivity in the Manufacturing Industry

Robots, Jobs and Productivity in the Manufacturing Industry

Reprinted with Permission

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 […]

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 […]

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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Five things we’re getting wrong about the future of work

HR needs to reframe its thinking on technology, millennials and data, experts tell the Future Works conference

HR has much to learn from the academics, policy experts and economists who gathered at last week’s Future Works conference, hosted by The Economist, where they collectively laid bare the host of challenges facing every leader – and employee – as the working world undergoes a transformation, the likes of which we’ve never seen before. Here are five myths about the future of work that they collectively debunked during their discussions.

The relationship between tech and jobs is straightforward More automation means […]

How tech is reshaping work values and goals

How tech is reshaping work values and goals

Companies can find talent. They just can’t attract it. Fifteen years ago, corporate was king, and bigger was better. Companies such as Bank of America , Qualcomm , Cisco Systems , Intel , Sun Microsystems and Merck were top companies desired for employment. That mindset has evaporated. Today Stryker , Baptist Health South Florida , Workday and Genentech are among the 100 best companies to work for, according to Fortune Magazine .

Small is beautiful

Worker preferences are changing. It’s no longer good enough to tout social responsibility and entice talent with the sparkle of high earnings. Employees want […]