Robots Not Stealing Our Jobs, World Bank Says

Robots Not Stealing Our Jobs, World Bank Says

Automation has little effect on global labour market, despite worries that robots will remove many jobs The threat of automation to the global jobs market may not be as widespread as first thought, according to new a report by the World Bank.

The report on the changing nature of work , found that the rise of automation has so far had a negligible impact on jobs at a global scale.

This is despite concerns that human jobs will soon be replaced by machines in the years ahead. Employment, Jobs © Luna Vandoorne Shutterstock 2012 The report did admit that industrial jobs […]

Does automation really mean more job losses?

Despite fears that automation could result in job losses and poverty, a new report from the World Bank has now shown that, so far, the impact it’s having globally is still small. In the latest effort to assess the effects of new technologies on employment levels, the report looks at the nature of work in the future.

This is different to previous studies, which mostly forecast that automation will result in more losses than will be created. Across the world, a rising number of industries are beginning to replace low-paid jobs with machines. This has led to the opinion that […]

AI Will Create Millions More Jobs Than It Will Destroy. Here’s How

AI Will Create Millions More Jobs Than It Will Destroy. Here’s How

In the past few years, artificial intelligence has advanced so quickly that it now seems hardly a month goes by without a newsworthy AI breakthrough . In areas as wide-ranging as speech translation, medical diagnosis , and gameplay , we have seen computers outperform humans in startling ways.

This has sparked a discussion about how AI will impact employment . Some fear that as AI improves, it will supplant workers, creating an ever-growing pool of unemployable humans who cannot compete economically with machines.

This concern, while understandable, is unfounded. In fact, AI will be the greatest job engine the world has […]

Will automation and AI give us four-day weekends – or simply leave us without jobs?

Will automation and AI give us four-day weekends – or simply leave us without jobs?

Assembly line robots have already taken over from humans in many manufacturing jobs, but will machines be replacing us in many other fields in future? (Photo: FRANCOIS GUILLOT/AFP/Getty Images) Artificial Intelligence expert Toby Walsh looks ahead to the work revolution coming our way, when robots are predicted to take over

In 1900 many people worked in dreadful conditions, doing repetitive and tedious jobs. The streets were full of horses and carts. Life expectancy for someone born that year was just 41. Wind forward to 1962 and working conditions had greatly improved. The streets were full of cars and trucks […]

World: Information Sur Hoy

The Taoiseach has said many professions could be affected, meaning people will need to upskill and retrain.

LEO VARADKAR HAS warned that robots and artificial intelligence (AI) pose a risk to people’s jobs.

When asked about how this could impact workers in Ireland, the Taoiseach said most jobs are “vulnerable to digitalisation or automatisation”, adding: “The important thing now is that we think ahead.“Almost anyone in employment at all levels could potentially lose their jobs as a result of AI, robotics or automation.“Even some jobs done by doctors – looking at slides could well be done by machines much […]

Turning on the taps of global talent pipelines

Turning on the taps of global talent pipelines

We report from the CIPD 2018 conference on the changes in recruitment that will be created by AI technologies thereby reducing the skills gap. This article is taken from the latest issue of Relocate magazine. – the must read for HR, global managers and relocation professionals. Getting the right people in the right place at the right time is becoming more pressured. Survey after survey point to low applicant rates, high numbers of unfilled vacancies and skills shortages in key sectors. Brexit takes it to another level in some sectors. But could this be about to change? Ruth Holmes […]

THE CHANGING NATURE OF WORK

THE CHANGING NATURE OF WORK

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Features As technology advances, firms adopt new methods of production, markets expand, and societies evolve. Firms rely on new technologies to better use capital, overcome information barriers, outsource, and innovate. Workers, firms and governments are building new comparative advantages as conditions change. For example, by being the first to adopt 3-D technologies, Danish firms strengthened their hold on the global market for hearing aid products in the 2000s.

The Indian government invested in technical universities across the country, and subsequently India became a world leader in high-tech sectors. By integrating into global value chains, Vietnamese workers developed […]

Varadkar warns that robots and artificial intelligence pose risk to people’s jobs

Varadkar warns that robots and artificial intelligence pose risk to people's jobs

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar at the Fine Gael Ard Fheis in Dublin in November. LEO VARADKAR HAS warned that robots and artificial intelligence (AI) pose a risk to people’s jobs.

When asked about how this could impact workers in Ireland, the Taoiseach said most jobs are “vulnerable to digitalisation or automatisation”, adding: “The important thing now is that we think ahead.

“Almost anyone in employment at all levels could potentially lose their jobs as a result of AI, robotics or automation.“Even some jobs done by doctors – looking at slides could well be done by machines much more accurately using machine-learning and […]

Technology, employment and work organisation

Enrique Fernández-MacÃas 1

European Commission’s Joint Research Center, Seville

I would like to say a few words on what I think is the elephant in the room in the debates on the impact ofdigital technologies on employment: work organisation.1. The unit of automation is tasks, not jobs. In the majority of cases, jobs are not only bundles oftasks. There is a lot of uncertainty and indetermination in productive processes, and mostworkers are required to be able to deal with that uncertainty on top of the bundle of tasks thattheir job may entail. But even the most advanced forms of artificial intelligence […]

$15 Minimum Wage Is Bad News for Working Class Americans, Says Andy Puzder

$15 Minimum Wage Is Bad News for Working Class Americans, Says Andy Puzder

By Michael Teich

Restaurants across the country are facing higher labor costs and minimum wage hikes, and that could spell doom not only for the businesses themselves, but also for working class Americans, according to former CKE Restaurants CEO Andy Puzder.

"People believe they are helping the working poor, but in fact, you’re actually hurting them," Puzder told Cheddar on Friday.The call for a $15 minimum wage has been an intensely debated topic. Proponents claim it’s necessary to help workers meet their basic cost of living needs and shrink the income inequality gap, while critics argue hiking wages too high […]