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How Women Can Advance In The Highly Automated Workplace Of The Future

How Women Can Advance In The Highly Automated Workplace Of The Future

There is potential for women to advance in the workplace if they are prepared for a more automated future. (Photo credit: Getty) Getty

The bots are coming. Automation is already starting to replace jobs. Robots and computers are not only taking over routine physical work activities, but they can now tackle more complicated tasks like driving and sensing emotions. And they’re cheaper than humans too. As a result, research suggests that about half of the work humans currently do will be automated by 2055. But how will female employees fare in our automated future? A new McKinsey study found that […]

Automation is Here. How Are You Leveraging It?

Automation is Here. How Are You Leveraging It?

Automation Technology 5558c5b706074 CPA firms are in the midst of a transition. For years, research firms and thought leaders have been predicting the disruption of the profession through automation. That disruption isn’t a vision for the future – it’s here now. In 2017, Gartner has forecast a transition period, lasting through 2020, in which AI would eliminate 1.8 million jobs. However, it also predicted the creation of 2.3 million jobs.

Currently, technology is creating ever-expanding opportunities for automation in accounting firms and changing the expectations of clients, employees and partners. So right now, we need to decide how we will […]

Automation to disproportionately affect women in healthcare

Automation to disproportionately affect women in healthcare

An emergency department in 2030 is poised to look much different as automation takes hold, and those changes are likely to disproportionately affect women in healthcare, according to a new report.

Automation will displace as many as 1 in 4 female workers across all sectors, or 160 million women, but that will be offset by an increase in demand and productivity, according to a new report from the McKinsey Global Institute. That does not account for "frontier" jobs that one could not even imagine today, said Kweilin Ellingrud, a senior partner at McKinsey and co-author of the report.

"It is scary […]

Forty Percent of Elementary School Teachers’ Work Could Be Automated By 2030, McKinsey Global Institute Predicts

The impact of automation will vary for male and female workers, with women likely being more susceptible to partial automation of their current occupations, according to new projections from the McKinsey Global Institute.

One big example: elementary school teachers, roughly 80 percent of whom are female. In the coming decade, McKinsey Global predicts, more than 40 percent of what these educators do during a current workday could be automated, resulting in the need to develop new skills and become more comfortable collaborating with algorithmic systems.

And teachers could be the lucky ones: Overall, as many as many as one-fourth of U.S. […]

High Oxford researcher talks the chance of automation on employment

If you’ve been following the conversation about technological unemployment and the threat of robots and A.I. stealing jobs, you may have come across the prediction that 47% of current jobs in the U.S. are at risk of automation. That figure comes from a widely cited 2013 paper, titled “The Future of Employment.”

One of that paper’s co-authors, Dr. Carl Benedikt Frey, has now expanded on the thesis in a new book. Frey is co-director of the Oxford Martin Programme on Technology and Employment at the U.K.’s prestigious Oxford University. His new book, The Technology Trap: Capital, Labor, and Power in […]

Cyber-Physical System Market Size & Positive Long-Term Growth Outlook 2018-2028

Cyber-Physical System Market Size & Positive Long-Term Growth Outlook 2018-2028

Researchmoz added Most up-to-date research on “ Cyber-Physical System Market: Will China be Able to Surpass Western Europe in Terms of Growth in the Coming Years: Global Industry Analysis (2013 – 2017) & Opportunity Assessment (2018 – 2028)” to its huge collection of research reports.

The Cyber-Physical System market report [10 Year Forecast 2018-2028] focuses on Major Leading Industry Players, providing info like company profiles, product type, application and regions, production capacity, ex-factory price, gross margin, revenue, market share and speak to info. Upstream raw materials and instrumentation and downstream demand analysis is additionally administrated. The Cyber-Physical System market […]

Meet the secret ‘ghost workers’ paid to keep the internet safe

Meet the secret ‘ghost workers’ paid to keep the internet safe

Enlarge Image Ghost workers are meant to make consumers believe in the autonomous intelligence of robots, when really there’s a human workforce behind the cogs and gears. Kala, a 43-year-old mother of two, sits alone at her home office, in the corner of a tiny bedroom, and studies her laptop screen, trying to determine if what she’s reading is offensive.

Her part-time job, which she picked up as a way to feel “fruitful” between making meals and helping her kids with their homework, involves “content moderation.” As an independent contractor for UHRS, an outsourcing company run by Microsoft, she spends […]

Deal to send Malaysian workers to Japan not finalised yet

Deal to send Malaysian workers to Japan not finalised yet

The memorandum of cooperation for Malaysia to send semi-skilled workers to Japan has not been finalised, Human Resource Minister M Kulasegaran said today.

"The MOC with Japan is still being drafted and is not finalised at the moment,” he said in a statement.

Kulasegaran, in response to critics, said it was unfair to deny Malaysians good jobs overseas, and it would be foolish to think that Malaysians would not seek employment opportunities abroad even if a formal deal is not reached."At least with a formal deal, there would be better protection and monitoring of these Malaysians, and their development could also […]

White House 2019 economic report puts a shine on AI and its meaning for the future of work: Top takeaways

White House 2019 economic report puts a shine on AI and its meaning for the future of work: Top takeaways

Policy makers are asked to worry deeply about how workers will deal with the costs of reskilling if they aren’t paid for the duration of the reskilling period or their wages aren’t enough to pay the tuition. Artificial intelligence

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Future of Work Jobs Machine Learning Reskilling Tech on Capitol Hill Upskilling White House This article is part of new series ➝ Tech on Capitol Hill. The White House has put a brand new shine on its artificial intelligence (AI) game devoting 42 pages of its latest annual economic […]

Chinese millennials are looking past factory jobs now. It’s all part of the plan

Chinese millennials are looking past factory jobs now. It's all part of the plan

Chinese millennials are looking past factory jobs now. It’s all part of the plan Life as one of China’s industrial worker ants did not suit Liu Xu: waking up early in factory accommodation, working for 11 hours operating a machine in the tool-making factory, eating all his meals in the factory canteen and going to bed, only to wake up and do it again.

His parents spent most of their lives in deadening jobs — his father on construction sites and his mother in factories — but 23-year-old Liu Xu lasted just a year in a factory in the southern […]