Tag: Services

Police can use robots that kill, San Francisco board decides

Police can use robots that kill, San Francisco board decides

TechCrunch reports that the concept of ‘killer robots’ has leaped from the pages of science fiction to reality. Due to a sluggish recovery from the coronavirus pandemic, it’s projected that thousands of jobs are unlikely to ever return. Whether that’s because businesses will ultimately shutter (or permanently reduce staff) or industries will be reinvented, there are myriad unknowns when trying to chart projections for the economic future of the U.S. economy. A paper released in May 2020 by the Becker Friedman Institute at the University of Chicago projected that 42% of layoffs caused by the pandemic will be permanent […]

74% of employees in South Africa say that robots should be more widely used in production, but fear robot hacking

74% of employees in South Africa say that robots should be more widely used in production, but fear robot hacking

According to Kaspersky ( www.Kaspersky.co.za ) research, employees in South Africa believe that the better robots become at different tasks, the fewer jobs will remain for humans. The majority of local employees surveyed (74%) believe that robots should be more widely used across different industries, however, many fear robot hacking.

Today robotics are used together with industrial control systems and other information technology to handle production processes, replacing manual labour and improving efficiency, speed, quality and performance. Kaspersky conducted a study to learn the opinion of employees of manufacturing companies and other large organisations around the world about the consequences […]

India to create 74 million new ‘green collar’ jobs by 2050 from climate transition: Deloitte

India to create 74 million new 'green collar' jobs by 2050 from climate transition: Deloitte

Over 800 million jobs worldwide — around one-quarter of the global workforce today — are highly vulnerable to both climate extremes and economic transition impacts, says a Deloitte report.

The report says the transition to net-zero emissions creates a cadre of workers with new skills, which can be called as the ‘green collar’ workforce. India is expected to have 74 million additional ‘green collar’ jobs by 2050 created from climate transition and about 27 million of these jobs are going to be in the government, financial, and business services sectors. Further, a well-planned transition to net zero carbon […]

How are millennials and Gen Z leading organizational automation

How are millennials and Gen Z leading organizational automation

Karan Jain

According to Gartner, automation is the fastest growing enterprise technology market today, and automation adoption is expected to displace 375mn workers from their roles by 2030. As this adoption of automation technology across business functions unfolds, it is worth noting as to how Gen-Z and millennials are reacting to it – especially as they will constitute 27% and 43% of the workforce by 2025.

How Gen-Z and millennials perceive their work Gen-Z and millennial workers perceive their role in workplaces differently from their previous generations in these regards: 1. They search for purpose: Millennials and Gen-z workers […]

How to help workers who feel alienated and overwhelmed

Guest column

First it was the “Great Resignation.” Then it was “nobody wants to work anymore.” Now it’s “quiet quitting.”

Yet it seems like no one wants to talk about what I see as the root cause of America’s economic malaise – work under contemporary capitalism is fundamentally flawed.As a political philosopher studying the effects of contemporary capitalism on the future of work, I believe that the inability to dictate and meaningfully control one’s own working life is the problem.Democratizing work is the solution. The problem of work What can be said about the malaise surrounding work under capitalism today?There are […]

Jobs at risk of automation. 9 million of the 9. 14% of jobs are at hi…

Jobs at risk of automation. 9 million of the 9. 14% of jobs are at high risk of automation; 32% are at medium risk; and 26% are at low risk of being automated. More . Within countries, however, employment growth has been much lower in jobs at high risk of automation (6%) Library technicians. Photograph: Mona Chalabi Inequality and opportunity in America is . 1% to 7. S. Specifically, 13. Dismiss. And more recently, a study by the OECD suggests that it is actually 14%, with a further “32% of jobs have a risk . In a recent survey, […]

Jobs In Automation & Telecom industries On The Rise: Monster Employment Index

Jobs In Automation & Telecom industries On The Rise: Monster Employment Index

· Automation, BFSI and Telecom register an uptick in hiring with the adoption of the latest technology while jobs in Healthcare and IT decline · Hiring stabilised in Coimbatore and Ahmedabad while the growth graph slowed down in major metropolitan cities of India The ongoing global economic contraction has trickled down to India with recruiters adopting a cautious approach to hiring. The Monster Employment Index (MEI) registered a 6% drop in hiring activity in October 2022 vis-à-vis October 2021.

Month-on-month job postings also noted a 5% decline. This can be attributed to changing patterns in the start-up ecosystem, funding winter […]

Social Security and COVID Stimulus: The Greatest Basic Income Experiments of All Time

Social Security and COVID Stimulus: The Greatest Basic Income Experiments of All Time

Universal basic income (UBI) is easy enough to grasp conceptually. The government simply gives people money without regard to employment status and without regard to need. In the United States, one idea gives $1,000 per month to every adult in the country. Given today’s living standards, $2000 per month is more reasonable. Married people get $48,000 per year from the government. Although not quite middle class, the amount is enough to keep people above the poverty line. Bolder proposals would give more money to help ensure people can be in the middle class.

For many people raised in a capitalist […]

Pack Expo report: Labor shortages driving push toward automation

Pack Expo report: Labor shortages driving push toward automation

Pack Expo report: Labor shortages driving push toward automation PMMI awards 6 students $5,000 Pack Expo scholarships Pack Expo 2022 award winners 2022 Pack Expo International attendance surpasses last edition Material Handling Education Foundation announces Cahners Award winner More Warehouse News All Resources Implementing one or more of these best practices can boost your picking efficiencies.

Labor shortages are driving consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies to adopt automated solutions, according to “The Future of Automation in Packaging and Processing” report released at Pack Expo International (Oct. 23-26, 2022; McCormick Place, Chicago).

The report, produced by show organizer PMMI, The Association for […]

Hicks: Remarkable productivity growth in hospitality, tourism

Hicks: Remarkable productivity growth in hospitality, tourism

Muncie Star Press Fall is a time for inexpensive conferences and parent weekends at colleges, and so, over the last month, I’ve been traveling extensively in the eastern half of the country. Some folks enjoy travel for the beautiful scenery, historic architecture and differing cultures. As an economist, I also think about local productivity differences over time — we are romantic in that way. What I saw offered only good long-term prognosis for the economy. Travel causes intense interaction with the hospitality and tourism sectors. These are sophisticated industries, whose productivity has local effects on employment and business profitability. […]