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Big Story: In the Quad-Cities, the future of work has arrived. Are you ready?

Big Story: In the Quad-Cities, the future of work has arrived. Are you ready?

Brice Wagner, of Davenport, plays a game wearing a pair of VR goggles during class at the AVR Academy, an augmented and virtual reality lab. (Monday, August 26, 2019, at Scott Community College in Davenport) Stephon Morgan, of Davenport, plays a game wearing a pair of VR goggles during class at the AVR Academy, an augmented and virtual reality lab. (Monday, August 26, 2019, at Scott Community College in Davenport) In a windowless room in the heart of downtown Davenport, Robert Gillespie sees the future.

Strapped around his face is a virtual reality headset, a sort of crystal ball that […]

Vocational jobs could help weather job crunch, say industrialists

Vocational jobs could help weather job crunch, say industrialists

Tech Mahindra Amid reports of job losses in the auto and the FMCG sectors, a boost to vocational training in areas such as healthcare could be exactly what people might need when the country is going through a slowdown, say industrialists.

A senior industry executive pointed out that most of the jobs that were done by B.Sc or B.Com graduates such as invoice processing and payroll processing are now automated. “Everywhere they are cutting jobs because of automation. All the invoice processing, payrolls are done by bots,” the executive said.

L Ravichandran, COO, Tech Mahindra , pointed out that, “More and […]

What is a Freelance Gig? How Does a Freelance Gig Freelance Marketplace Work?

What is a Freelance Gig? How Does a Freelance Gig Freelance Marketplace Work?

A gig is a temporary and flexible job, on location or through the internet, hired as an independent contractor (often known as freelancers) for people or companies looking for specialized services instead of hiring full-time employees. Often one full-time employee can not handle the plethora of different skills needed. So, instead of having a full-time employee, you can (for example) have 4-5 gig contractors splitting the workload, with each specialist solving a specific task. Freelance (sometimes spelled free-lance or free lance), freelancer, and freelance worker, are terms commonly used for a person who is self-employed and is not necessarily […]

Embracing Automation in the Workplace

Embracing Automation in the Workplace

PHOTO: Jason Wong Years ago a manager told me, “If you have a boring, repetitive task, give it to the laziest person you know — they will figure out a way to automate it.” I had a teenager at home at the time. Trust me, it’s true. Automation at Home vs. Automation at Work

We are perfectly happy to have automation in our personal lives. Think about the iRobot vacuum cleaner, or the most basic of automation (and laziness): the universal remote control that turns on the TV, DVD and sound system with the press of one button from […]

HSBC introduces ‘Pepper’ the robot — promising fun, efficiency and job growth

HSBC introduces 'Pepper' the robot — promising fun, efficiency and job growth

Pepper has speakers and cameras embedded in its head, though the bank says it does not record any customer information. (Nick Boisvert/CBC) Near the bank tellers at a downtown Toronto HSBC branch, a robot that’s a little more than a metre tall invites customers to ask for help before waiting in line for its human co-workers.

A touchscreen tablet attached to its chest brings "Pepper" to life. Cameras embedded in the robot’s head allow it to uncannily track human faces in its line of sight.

"How may I help you?" it asks, craning upward.For the moment, Pepper’s options are limited, but […]

How to Choose a Job That Won’t Be Replaced By Robots

How to Choose a Job That Won't Be Replaced By Robots

Indypendenz/Shutterstock Both blue- and white-collar routine jobs are at risk of displacement by robots, while nonroutine, abstract occupations are more difficult to automate – for now.

Jobs involving creativity and emotional intelligence are the least likely to be replaced by automation.

Lifelong re-education may be the surest way to professional survival. If the idea of a C-3PO-like robot occupying your current job, whether that’s teaching a class of kindergarteners or auditing taxes, sounds far-fetched 10 years from now, you’re not wrong. However, experts caution that 25% of U.S. jobs are at "high risk" of automation (with another 36% at […]

How Artificial Intelligence Is Going to Transform the Engineers’ Jobs

How Artificial Intelligence Is Going to Transform the Engineers' Jobs

Smart factory ipopba/iStock An engineer checking and controlling welding robotics automatic arms machines in an intelligent industrial automotive factory using a monitoring system software used to belong to the science fiction realm.

However, this is the reality of d igital manufacturing operations in today’s Industry 4.0 smart factories. Industry 4.0 is a concept that originated in Germany and is related to the integration of Internet of Things (IoT) and Machine-to-Machine (M2M) technology with networking and analytics with industry processes.

Another ingredient in Industry 4.0 is Artificial Intelligence , one of the fastest growing emerging technologies with a market expected to reach […]

Labour pains: our rapidly changing workplace

Labour pains: our rapidly changing workplace

While Australian manufacturing never fully recovered from that tumult, the US, at least, had Apple and Microsoft leading the charge as its manufacturing base atrophied, with “Silicon Valley” now a byword for the digital economy. Australia continued, largely, to live off the back of a mining boom driven by China’s historic economic expansion, while investment in innovation lagged, and today is half that of countries like the US and Germany.

We hear a lot about the jobs of the future, usually from American media outlets gushing out a range of blue-sky predictions. What’s the next big thing? What will […]

It’s time to embrace a global revolution in automation

It’s time to embrace a global revolution in automation

WELL PREPARED: The media and gatekeepers of new digital technologies must work together to educate the public. With many finding the rise of automation and artificial intelligence unnerving, it’s important to make education key in alleviating fears

THE concept of widespread automation can seem frightening, somewhat dystopian even, bringing out our internal luddites to protest against something that is seen to be harmful to our future.
The truth is that automation is here and has been for many years; the difference is in how it is approached and is informed by lessons of past industrial revolutions.
“We can call automation […]

Advanced Manufacturing Disrupts the Location Process

Advanced Manufacturing Disrupts the Location Process

Broadly speaking, advanced manufacturing can be defined as the inclusion of new, more efficient manufacturing methods enabled by technological innovation. The adoption of technology-driven automation in manufacturing has been omnipresent since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, but the rapid pace of advancements — especially around robotics, artificial intelligence (AI), and 3-D printing/additive manufacturing — is changing the industrial landscape faster than ever before. When the time comes to select a physical location for a new advanced manufacturing facility, these technological shifts are manifesting themselves in an updated approach to location strategy, specifically when it comes to hiring profiles, […]