Tag: Technical

Visualizing the Jobs Lost to Automation

Visualizing the Jobs Lost to Automation

The employment landscape of the future will look very different than it does today.

While we’ve charted the automation potential of U.S. jobs before, today’s graphic from Henrik Lindberg perhaps tells the story more succinctly.

In plain black and white, it shows the jobs that exist today in contrast to the jobs that are expected to disappear as a result of automation in the workplace. Though, technically speaking, it is applying the probabilities of the widely-cited Frey & Osborne (2013) study to U.S. jobs as of 2016 to give an expected value to each job title. A DIFFERENT LANDSCAPE In the […]

Computers With Wheels or High-Tech Cars?

Computers With Wheels or High-Tech Cars?

The majority of car companies have dedicated themselves to an electric future, and some bold ones are going a step further, pledging to go autonomous in the next several years .

We’re still a few years away from the Jetson’s mode of transportation becomes a reality because there are a number of legislative and technical roadblocks to navigate, as well as the potential effect this technology will have on jobs within the transportation industry. A RETURN TO THE GLORY DAYS FOR AMERICAN AUTOMAKERS?

Self-driving vehicles are already here — sorta.Many cars already have some sort of autonomous aspect (think: […]

Want to cut healthcare costs? Try automation

Want to cut healthcare costs? Try automation

© Getty Images In the intense and ongoing debate over federal healthcare policy, the cost of prescription drugs has been a central and constant issue. Lawmakers from both parties have put forward dizzyingly diverse range of plans that aim to reduce costs and respond to constituent’s demands.

But there’s one straightforward technical tool for reducing drug costs that hasn’t appeared in the high-profile debate.

When it comes to manufacturing pharmaceuticals, Americans should consider investing in automation.It’s no secret: automation can be a dirty word in U.S. politics. It’s often synonymous with computers or robots taking jobs and shuttering factories. There’s some […]

Rep. Dollens: As automation threatens jobs, initiatives seek to prepare workers for future

In 2014, I worked as a roughneck on a drilling rig that had been built in the 1970s. This rig, four decades old, required countless man hours to ensure that it ran smoothly. Everything — from throwing chains, working the tongs and making connections — had to be done by hand. It was grueling work, but I valued the friendships I built out there with those working beside me.

About a year later, I was moved to a new rig, this one state-of-the art. What used to take four people working out in the sun could now be done by […]

End of the checkout line: the looming crisis for American cashiers

End of the checkout line: the looming crisis for American cashiers

he day before a fully automated grocery store opened its doors in 1939, the inventor Clarence Saunders took out a full page advertisement in the Memphis Press-Scimitar warning “old duds” with “cobwebby brains” to keep away. The Keedoozle , with its glass cases of merchandise and high-tech system of circuitry and conveyer belts, was cutting edge for the era and only those “of spirit, of understanding” should dare enter.

Inside the gleaming Tennessee store, shoppers inserted a key into a slot below their chosen items, producing a ticker tape list that, when fed into a machine, sent the goods traveling […]

So many good U.S. jobs, so few qualified workers

So many good U.S. jobs, so few qualified workers

NORWOOD, Ohio – Herbie Mays is 3M proud, and it shows — in the 3M shirt he wears, in the 3M ring he earned after three decades at the company’s plant in suburban Cincinnati, in the way he shows off a card from a 3M supervisor, praising Mays as "a GREAT employee."

But it’s all nostalgia.

Mays’ last day at 3M ( MMM ) was in March. Bent on cutting costs and refocusing its portfolio, the company decided to close the plant that made bandages, knee braces and other health care supplies and move work to its plant in Mexico.At 62, […]

As the laid-off struggle, high-tech US plants offer jobs

As the laid-off struggle, high-tech US plants offer jobs

Herbie Mays is 3M proud, and it shows — in the 3M shirt he wears; in the 3M ring he earned after three decades at the company’s plant in suburban Cincinnati; in the way he shows off a card from a 3M supervisor, praising Mays as "a GREAT employee."

But it’s all nostalgia.

Mays’ last day at 3M was in March. Bent on cutting costs and refocusing its portfolio, the company decided to close the plant that made bandages, knee braces and other health care supplies and move work to its plant in Mexico.At 62, Mays is unemployed and wants to […]

High-tech US plants offer jobs even as the laid-off struggle

High-tech US plants offer jobs even as the laid-off struggle

With more factory jobs now demanding education, technical know-how or specialized skills, many US plants are struggling to fill positions. (Aug. 15)

Media: Associated Press

NORWOOD, Ohio (AP) — Herbie Mays is 3M proud, and it shows — in the 3M shirt he wears; in the 3M ring he earned after three decades at the company’s plant in suburban Cincinnati; in the way he shows off a card from a 3M supervisor, praising Mays as "a GREAT employee."But it’s all nostalgia.Mays’ last day at 3M was in March. Bent on cutting costs and refocusing its portfolio, the company decided […]

High-tech US plants offer jobs even as the laid-off struggle

High-tech US plants offer jobs even as the laid-off struggle

Herbie Mays is 3M proud, and it shows — in the 3M shirt he wears; in the 3M ring he earned after three decades at the company’s plant in suburban Cincinnati; in the way he shows off a card from a 3M supervisor, praising Mays as "a GREAT employee."

But it’s all nostalgia.?

Mays’ last day at 3M was in March. Bent on cutting costs and refocusing its portfolio, the company decided to close the plant that made bandages, knee braces and other health care supplies and move work to its plant in Mexico.At 62, Mays is unemployed and wants to […]

Revolutionise training to cope with work revolution

Revolutionise training to cope with work revolution

START coding next year – that is the ambitious plan the Employees Provident Fund has in reskilling its staff members to prepare them for the rapidly changing work environment.

“Rather than wait for current changes to overtake us, we are retraining them to brace for the impact of technological disruptions on the world of work,” said EPF deputy chief executive officer of strategy division, Tunku Alizakri Alias.

And this will not be EPF’s first proactive measure in navigating the disruptive forces: in 2014, it launched its Retirement Advisory Services (RAS) to help members manage their retirement savings.While this initiative was a […]