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Hiring troubles prompt some employers to eye automation and machines

Cambridge-based Moderna plans to increase its spending on digital automation and artificial-intelligence investment to $170 million this year, up from $27 million two years ago.Nancy Lane/Associated Press The United States today is producing roughly the same amount of goods and services as before the coronavirus pandemic — but with 8.2 million fewer workers, equal to the combined payrolls of every employer in Virginia, Arizona, and Iowa.

Greater productivity is the rare silver lining to emerge from the crucible of COVID-19. The health crisis forced executives to innovate, often by accelerating the introduction of industrial robots, advanced software, and artificial intelligence […]

Hiring troubles prompt some employers to eye automation and machines

From warehouses to oil fields, artificial intelligence, robots and advanced software are leaving a mark

The United States today is producing roughly the same amount of goods and services as before the coronavirus pandemic — but with 8.2 million fewer workers, equal to the combined payrolls of every employer in Virginia, Arizona and Iowa.

Greater productivity is the rare silver lining to emerge from the crucible of covid-19. The health crisis forced executives to innovate, often by accelerating the introduction of industrial robots, advanced software and artificial intelligence that reduced their dependence upon workers who might get sick.Even as millions […]

Focus On Productivity: How COVID taught us to do more with less resources…

Focus On Productivity: How COVID taught us to do more with less resources...

Focus On Productivity: How COVID taught us to do more with less resources…

According to the Global Travel Staffing Barometer, due to the pandemic, travel companies around the world have laid off or furloughed over half a million people, and the number of LinkedIn users in the hospitality space applying the #opentowork hashtag to their profiles grows day after day. Most hotels are struggling to run operations with skeleton crews only, yet they do not have any real alternative. In some countries, in fact, the financial help coming from governments is close to zero, so the only option for […]

Winning with AI – Strategies for Organizations to Boost AI Literacy

Winning with AI – Strategies for Organizations to Boost AI Literacy

Artificial intelligence (AI) tools are more commonly adopted in all types of businesses and industries. As a result, it’s critical that everyone in the company understands how AI and machine learning can help them do their jobs better and make more informed decisions. However, AI literacy is currently lacking in most organizations, with the exception of a few specialized technical roles.

There has been a lot of talk about the imminent lack of employment as a result of artificial intelligence adoption . However, while machines are rapidly outperforming humans in daily activities, they are often creating completely new jobs […]

Future of jobs: Roles that will not exist in 2030. (Photo by Miguel MEDINA / AFP)

Future of jobs: Roles that will not exist in 2030. (Photo by Miguel MEDINA / AFP)

In an era marked by rapid advances in automation and artificial intelligence, jobs will be rendered obsolete through 2030

Even those professions once thought to be insulated from technological disruption face an uncertain future

A large portion of the workforce could become redundant as a result of our incessant pursuit of convenience These days, new technological advances happen all the time — and while some industries have flourished in the changing landscape, others have benefited from (some might say, fallen prey to) automation. Even if it increases productivity and improves our lives, its usage will inevitably […]

Job Growth Reported in Shreveport Area

Job Growth Reported in Shreveport Area

Good news on the jobs front in Shreveport and the entire state of Louisiana. The unemployment rate across the state is down and each of the major metro areas is showing job growth.

Louisiana’s March 2021 unemployment fell to 6.6% from the February rate of 7.1%. This is the lowest not seasonally adjusted rate since March of last year before work came to a screeching halt for millions across the nation.

Here are the numbers from the major metro areas in our state: • Alexandria: 4.4 percent, down from 4.8 percent in February and down from 5.4 percent in March […]

New manufacturing jobs and automation aren’t mutually exclusive. Here’s why

New manufacturing jobs and automation aren't mutually exclusive. Here's why

Joe Biden tours a Pennsylvania metal works plant during his electoral campaign in 2020. President Biden’s executive order invests $300 billion in technology, while promising to create 5 million manufacturing jobs.

Automation will be the catalyst for America’s new economic boom.

Even with disruption in specific industries because of automation, employment will continue to rise. Hot on the heels of his inauguration as the 46th President of the United States, Joe Biden announced his plans to strengthen the US manufacturing sector in the midst of the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression.Dubbed the “Made in America” executive order, […]

Reading ‘Futureproof’ and Thinking About the Ways That Technology Has Made Academic Work Worse

Reading ‘Futureproof’ and Thinking About the Ways That Technology Has Made Academic Work Worse

Futureproof: 9 Rules for Humans in the Age of Automation by Kevin Roose

Published in March of 2021.

Futureproof is a book that is less about the future and more about the present.For close readers of the “robots will or will not take all the jobs genre” (count me in), Futureproof offers little that is original.Those convinced that the future will be one of technological unemployment will not feel any better after reading Futureproof . Nor will those persuaded that society will adjust to new technologies by creating new types of jobs feel any less confident in […]

How Can We Ensure Humans Flourish in an Age of Robots?

How Can We Ensure Humans Flourish in an Age of Robots?

Technology The pandemic has accelerated the update of automation in many areas of work. Robotic process automation, or RPA, is rapidly replacing a lot of white collar activities, while AI is starting to be used in supervisory positions.

In his new book, FutureProof, 9 Rules for Humans in the Age of Automation , the New York Times’s technology correspondent Kevin Roose argues that there is a risk of the workplace becoming dehumanized by automation and that we need to think carefully about what we automate.

ROOSE: The pandemic has really had a significant effect on accelerating the deployment […]

Bezos’s call for automated staffing schedules to reduce injuries fails to address employee concerns

Bezos’s call for automated staffing schedules to reduce injuries fails to address employee concerns

Jeff Bezos wants Amazon to use “sophisticated algorithms” to track the muscle groups used by warehouse workers and ultimately reduce workplace injuries. The proposal, made in a recent lengthy shareholder letter, came on the heels of a failed unionization effort at its Bessemer, Alabama, warehouse and amid growing scrutiny of the company’s labor practices. In the letter, Bezos said Amazon is developing “automated staffing schedules” that rotate workers between jobs prioritizing different muscle groups to avoid repetitive motion that could lead to injury. Bezos claims early studies of the automated staffing schedules decreased musculoskeletal disorders—like sprains and strains—by 32% […]