Automation, robots and globalization are rapidly changing the workplace and governments must act fast and decisively to counter the effects or face a worsening of social and economic tensions, the OECD warned.
Almost half of all jobs could be wiped out or radically altered in the next two decades due to automation, the Paris-based group said in a report last week. According to OECD Labor Director Stefano Scarpetta, the pace of change will be “startling.”
Safety nets and training systems built up over decades to protect workers are struggling to keep up with the “megatrends” changing the nature of work, the […]
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