Tag: Technical

Is the IoT Creating or Destroying Jobs?

Is the IoT Creating or Destroying Jobs?

Thirty years ago, “cloud engineer” would have been a pretty good slang term for an airline pilot. Thanks to the growing reach of the Internet, though, it’s now a job in its own right, just like “chatbot designer,” “social media manager,” and “database architect.” Technological advances like artificial intelligence and the Internet of Things are creating a wealth of new jobs that we never saw coming, but if you’re a food service worker or nuclear power reactor operator , you should probably start updating your resume.

Automation and connected devices are coming for high- and low-skill jobs alike, and many […]

Robots a Threat to British workers – why?

Robots a Threat to British workers – why?

Robots a Threat to British workers – why? More than ten million United Kingdom staff square measure at high risk of being replaced by robots among fifteen years because the automation of routine tasks gathers pace in an exceedingly new machine age.

A report by the practice firm PwC found that half-hour of jobs in GB was probably below threat from breakthroughs in computer science (AI). In some sectors, half the jobs could go.

The report aforesaid the largest impact would air staff World Health Organization had left college with GCSEs or lower, and that there was an argument for government […]

Ignore the fearmongers – robots will boost manufacturing jobs in Ireland

Ignore the fearmongers – robots will boost manufacturing jobs in Ireland

By Samantha Cummins-Byrne, Universal Robots

As Richard Bruton, Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation makes clear in his foreword to the ‘Making it in Ireland: Manufacturing 2020’ report, Ireland is a proud manufacturing nation. The sector contributes 25% of GDP, employs 205,700 people directly and 400,000 people across all skill levels when indirect employment is taken into account.

It may come as a surprise then that Ireland is falling well behind its European counterparts in the automation race. In terms of robot density, Europe has the highest level worldwide, with the manufacturing industry comprising over 105 robots per 10,000 employees. […]

4IR in West Africa: What business owners need to know

4IR in West Africa: What business owners need to know

While small and medium business (SMB) owners in West Africa have seen the terms, ‘Fourth Industrial Revolution’ and ‘Industry 4.0’, or ‘4IR’ in the headlines and on the Internet, many assume that this trend will only affect larger businesses. Nothing could be further from the truth – the next wave of digital technology will be as meaningful and important to SMBs as the mobile phone and the Internet.

Let’s quickly recap what the history of the other three industrial revolutions before looking at the fourth: The first industrial revolution in around 1785 was about using steam- and water-powered machines to […]

The White-Collar Job Apocalypse That Didn’t Happen

The White-Collar Job Apocalypse That Didn’t Happen

Maddie McGarvey for The New York Times

Ron Kincaid remembers what it was like to worry that his job would be sent overseas.

Globalization had ravaged American manufacturing, and now, in the first years of the new century, economists were warning that offshoring — the relocating of work to other countries — was coming for white-collar jobs like his as well.For Mr. Kincaid, the evidence seemed close at hand; he overheard conversations through his boss’s open office door about which foreign contractors should take over which jobs at the automobile finance company where he worked. He remembers the meeting where an […]

Tech in Africa: Job killer, or job creator?

Tech in Africa: Job killer, or job creator?

Investment in education is the only way to prevent job automation becoming a fatality (phonlamaiphoto – stock.adobe.com) Everyone agrees jobs is a priority of the 21st century on the continent. But will technology help or hinder? Our experts push aside the distinction to focus on skills, mind-sets and structural reform…

It is the first of May, international day of workers, at the Athlone Stadium in Cape Town. Paul Mashatile, dressed in the trademark yellow and green T-shirt of the ruling African National Congress (ANC), is speaking to a packed audience of trade unionists dressed in red.

“There are many of our […]

The future of work will still include plenty of jobs

The future of work will still include plenty of jobs

Canada’s record has been one of modernization and transition and corresponding job obsolescence, without job scarcity Power loom weaving in a cotton mill in Lancashire, U.K., around 1835. Shutterstock (CP) — There is now widespread anxiety over the future of work, often accompanied by calls for a basic income to protect those displaced by automation and other technological changes.

As a labour economist, I am in favour of more efficient redistributive taxation through the application of refundable tax credits, which amounts to an income-tested basic income or negative income tax.

But I am more skeptical about the spectre of a future […]

The future of work will still include plenty of jobs

The future of work will still include plenty of jobs

Canada’s record has been one of modernization and transition and corresponding job obsolescence, without job scarcity Power loom weaving in a cotton mill in Lancashire, U.K., around 1835. Shutterstock (CP) — There is now widespread anxiety over the future of work, often accompanied by calls for a basic income to protect those displaced by automation and other technological changes.

As a labour economist, I am in favour of more efficient redistributive taxation through the application of refundable tax credits, which amounts to an income-tested basic income or negative income tax.

But I am more skeptical about the spectre of a future […]

Mckinsey global institute automation

McKinsey & Company | 1 Digitization of everything . Worlds Fair Nano is a future festival that aims to connect people with the future Across the country, automation is changing the landscape of local labor markets. Jul 06, 2017 · The McKinsey Global Institute has conducted a research about automation technologies and their potential impact. 64% 74% 98% . McKinsey Quarterly. Apr 10, 2019 · McKinsey Global Institute (2019), Globalization in transition: The future of trade and value chains, January. . A new report from the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) looked at 315 cities to identify the ways automation […]

Jobs are changing – and fast. Here’s what trainers and employers must do to keep up

Jobs are changing – and fast. Here’s what trainers and employers must do to keep up

Technological developments are expected to majorly, and rapidly, disrupt or change the nature of employment. The multiplier effect of these disruptions interacting with each other has led to what has been termed the fourth industrial revolution.

The first industrial revolution took us from agrarian to industrial economies and the second used resources like electricity and steel to create mass production. The third refers to technology advancing from analog and mechanical devices to the digital technology available today.

The fourth industrial revolution represents ways technology has become embedded in societies by the fusion of technologies, or what is known as cyber-physical systems. […]