Tag: Technology

We must skill the UK’s next generation to shoulder the burdens of the 21st century #Edu4_0

We must skill the UK’s next generation to shoulder the burdens of the 21st century #Edu4_0

Mithun Kamath is Group CEO of Arc Skills A job market being transformed beyond recognition by the inexorable march of #AI and #Automation

With the UN marking World Youth Skills Day earlier this month on July 15, we are reminded of just how vital it is that young people are equipped to help build the sustainable, inclusive and stable societies we want them to inherit. Mechanisms needed to operationalise #LifelongLearning #WYSD2019 https://t.co/ao0wgGyhfy — FE News (@FENews) July 23, 2019 The 1.2 billion young people aged 15 to 24, who make up 16% of the global population, are the future […]

Automating a job reddit

On Reddit, in After graduating college with a computer science degree seven years ago, OP landed a job in the Bay Area doing Quality Assurance work for a tech company. Meanwhile, rural areas ended up with 90,000 fewer jobs over the same time span. Technology is killing manufacturing jobs. That’s a very good thing. Well, believe it or not Reddit isn’t always there to distract you from important real life stuff. Automated Logistical Specialist (Enlisted) Learn more about this military classification from Careers in the Military . To publish a workbook within the Portal, open the Workbook, open the […]

The Fed struggles to solve the inflation puzzle

The Fed struggles to solve the inflation puzzle

The old model is broken

The WSJ today writes about the Fed’s struggle to understand what’s happening with inflation. The 20th century model was all domestic. When the labor market tightened, it drove more demand for goods and prices rose. It’s the basic Phillips Curve.

However US inflation is now stuck under 2% despite record employment and a growing economy. The answer is obvious: the combination of globalization, automation and deunionization have made it possible to produce and/or import an basically unlimited amount of consumer goods without causing inflation.Elsewhere, technology has expanded access to raw materials.So the Phillips Curve now […]

Future Automation

Great for the robots, but what about people?. The Future of Jobs Report aims to unpack and provide specific information on the relative magnitude of these trends by industry and geography, and on the expected time horizon for their impact to be felt on job functions, employment levels and skills. Universal Basic Income may be our only way out. 133, Sector No. Learn about Azure Automation, a cloud automation service for process automating those long-running, error-prone, frequently repeated tasks with Windows PowerShell. In this talk about the future of work, economist David Autor addresses the question of why there […]

‘The Robots Are Coming!’

'The Robots Are Coming!'

The Robots Are Coming!: The Future of Jobs in the Age of Automation by Andres Oppenheimer

Published in April of 2019.

Will robots take all the jobs?What should colleges and universities do to prepare our graduates for the automation of cognitive work?How should higher education change in response to the new technologies, such as artificial intelligence and ubiquitous connectivity? The Robots Are Coming joins a growing list of books that attempt to answer these questions.From a purely higher ed perspective, the best of the bunch is Joseph Aoun’s 2017 Robot-Proof: Higher Education in the Age of Artificial Intelligence […]

Revamped Ford Chicago Assembly Plant Has 600 Robots

Revamped Ford Chicago Assembly Plant Has 600 Robots

Ford is still talking up its revamped Chicago Assembly plant that it invested $1 billion into this year. The investment opened up 500 new jobs and brought a bunch of new robots into the factory. Ford is talking about those robots and notes that none of the robots have displaced workers. The 600 robots are helping to build new vehicles at the Ford Chicago Assembly plant.

The facility has 5,000 workers, and Ford says that 500 new employees were brought on specifically for the robotic system. Ford has also trained some of its veteran staff to adapt to the new […]

Robots Moving Into Torrence Avenue Ford Plant In Sign Of Changing Nature Of Work

Robots Moving Into Torrence Avenue Ford Plant In Sign Of Changing Nature Of Work

CHICAGO (CBS) — Robotics can lead to greater productivity, but also disrupt what jobs look like in the 21st century. Hundreds of robots are moving into the Ford Motor Co. Chicago Assembly Plant on Torrence Avenue.

On Monday, CBS 2 Morning Insider Vince Gerasole took us inside the changing face of employment.

The real-life robots don’t look anything like R2-D2, but they are mesmerizing. After an investment of $1 billion, some 600 of the robots are now helping build new vehicles at the Torrence Avenue Ford plant.“I don’t think you’re going to find a more technical system in the world than […]

Behind-the-scenes work on skills policy detailed in election-tinged documents

Behind-the-scenes work on skills policy detailed in election-tinged documents

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announcing spending on the Canada Summer Jobs program in Toronto in 2016. (Aaron Vincent Elkaim/The Canadian Press) Top Canadian civil servants have been told that their departments don’t know what the jobs of the future will look like and that employers’ demands for skills will change more frequently.

The admission is in voluminous material prepared for deputy ministers as they get ready for the fall election and the prospect of a new party taking power or the Liberals’ being re-elected with new priorities.

A series of briefing notes and detailed, lengthy presentations show that much of the […]

High school students shunning summer jobs

High school students shunning summer jobs

The summer job, long an entry-level rite of passage into the working world for teenagers, is becoming obsolete.

Under pressure to bolster their college applications, more students are shunning the character-building, low-paying first job for extracurricular activities and year-round academics.

Out are summers spent perched on a lifeguard chair slathered in zinc oxide, schlepping clubs on fairways or stacking boxes in a warehouse. In are science classes, tutoring sessions or other resume-worthy pursuits, all aimed at giving students a leg up on the competition.Emblematic of that trend is Magali Ortiz, 18, a recent graduate of Northside College Prep, who spent every […]

‘Robotic process automation is the beginning, expect further disruption in technology and services’

‘Robotic process automation is the beginning, expect further disruption in technology and services’

White collar automation has been happening for a very long time. Robotics is a cool name for efficient software that has led to the creation of a new stream called Robotics Process Automation (RPA). RPA eliminates mundane and tedious tasks freeing workers to focus on higher value work. Since the 4-5 years of its evolution, RPA is now the buzzword for CTOs and CFOs as it delivers 30-40 percent savings and operational efficiency in the first year of adoption and continues to improve efficiencies thereafter. Some of the leading industries adopting RPA in the West are financial services, healthcare […]