Tag: Technical

WiCipedia: Tech Falls High in Happiness Index & the Blue Collar-AI Struggle

WiCipedia: Tech Falls High in Happiness Index & the Blue Collar-AI Struggle

Comment (0) This week in our WiCipedia roundup: Techies are pretty dang happy at work; AI’s effect on female blue-collar workers; college students are majority female though tech workforce lags; and more. Despite tech’s reputation for having double standards for different genders and races, people who work in tech are still some of the most satisfied with their careers. A study from CNBC and SurveyMonkey examined the happiness indexes of different professions, and found that 90% of tech workers are satisfied with their jobs. "With their high salaries, enviable perks, and jobs that really are changing the way the […]

Trade department lays out plans for onset of advanced manufacturing

assembly line GOVERNMENT agencies are proposing programs to address job losses caused by the possible contraction of the manufacturing sector due to increased automation, officials said at an economic forum.

Representatives from the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) and the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) disclosed the plans at a Philippine Economic Society forum Thursday.

“The entry of industrial technologies will add another layer of complexity to the already challenging task of developing globally competitive industries,” DTI Undersecretary Rafaelita M. Aldaba said in her presentation.“Adoption of new technologies would increase productivity but may replace workers whose tasks are to […]

Automation and its enemies

Automation and its enemies

The Industrial Revolution made technology the engine of economic growth (Landes 1969, Mokyr 1990). Before 1750, per capita income in the world doubled every 6,000 years. Since then, it has doubled every 50 years (DeLong 1999). This acceleration was in large part the consequence of applying machinery in production, which allowed us to produce more with fewer people (Frey 2019). Seen in this light, the current automation hysteria is hard to understand. Future generations could make an extraordinary leap forward from the Industrial Revolution’s ‘great enrichment’. The industrialisation process itself, however, was a different matter. The Luddites, who rioted […]

Andrew Yang: Math, Jobs and the Robot Future

Andrew Yang: Math, Jobs and the Robot Future

It’s standard by now for any bio of Andrew Yang, the 44-year-old New York businessman who is running a longshot campaign for the Democratic nomination for president of the United States, to include a smirking reference to the "Robot Apocalypse." Yang, however, is definitely not kidding. The central theme of his campaign is that technology is going to continue to put more and more Americans out of work—with devastating social consequences that we have not prepared for as a nation.

His primary answer to that challenge is a guaranteed monthly payment of $1,000 a month, no strings attached, […]

Talent Acquisition Strategies for Distributors

Talent Acquisition Strategies for Distributors

The Association Education Alliance, a collective of 40+ wholesaler-distributor trade associations, commissioned a report on behalf of its distribution association members to identify challenges and best practices in talent acquisition. The analysis and recommendations provided in the following article are based on interviews with distributors, HR and education experts, as well as results from an online survey of about 190 distributors and manufacturers. Member associations have access to the full report.

Where a decade ago, many workers were desperate to find jobs, recruiters and employers now find themselves in heated competition for workers, a reflection of a low overall […]

Auto workers forced to accept their insecure fate

NEW DELHI: It’s mid-afternoon in Gurgaon. Lines of uniformed men are streaming into the Maruti plant, from nearby Mullahera village where they live, several to a cramped room. The colour of their uniform marks their status — permanent, casual, temporary (hired for six months at a time), and apprentice. While they all do similar work in various parts of the factory, this status makes all the difference to their income, security and prospects.

With production slowing across the , temporary workers are the first to go. Roughly a million jobs are reportedly at risk. “The companies with greater contractualisation have […]

Looking to the future

Looking to the future

Are we ready? How can we get a leg up on the 4th industrial revolution?

Humanity has gone through three industrial revolutions, starting roughly around 1760, and we are on the verge of delving into the 4th industrial revolution (4IR). The 4IR is prophesied to make millions of existent jobs redundant and engender a perilous future.

Technologies that will drive the 4IR, such as artificial intelligence, robotics, block chain, and 3D printing are anticipated to disrupt the business model on which current society is based on.McKinsey has estimated as many as 800 million jobs could be lost because of the 4IR. […]

A Robot Tax Will Help No One And Hurt Many

A Robot Tax Will Help No One And Hurt Many

A robot: less frightening than it looks. (Photo by Mikhail JaparidzeTASS via Getty Images) A robot tax? Now I have heard it all. The idea came out of Bill de Blasio just before he gave up his bid to gain the Democratic presidential nomination, but he is not alone. Other progressives have fastened on to the idea, as have several Silicon Valley business leaders. It has, in other words, acquired a life of its own. It certainly is indicative of thinking among a group that has so clearly gained ascendency within the Democratic Party. On that basis, even though […]

The jobs that will be obsolete in 10 years, making STEM a must

The jobs that will be obsolete in 10 years, making STEM a must

Rapid and profound technology changes and globalisation are combining to change the nature of work and the types of employment which will be available.

The world has passed through four industrial revolutions, each defined by the key technologies which sustained them: The first used water and steam power; the second relied on electric power; and the third used electronics and information technology.

The fourth and current industrial revolution is powered by artificial intelligence and the fusion of physical, digital, and biological technologies. New technologies such as nanotechnology, digitisation, artificial intelligence, robotisation, smart machines, drones and the like, are profoundly changing […]

Tech revolution: are Pakistani women being left behind?

Tech revolution: are Pakistani women being left behind?

A Reuters file photo showing silhouette of a woman. We are living in the age of a technological revolution that has fundamentally altered the way people, organisations and institutions connect with each other. Technology has also transformed the world of work, launching the Fourth Industrial Revolution (IR 4.0) that is characterised by a range of new technologies such as financial technologies (Fin Tech), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), and Deep Learning (DL) that are fusing the physical, digital and biological worlds, impacting every aspect of our lives today. This stage of industrial development is meant to connect […]