As Santa and his reindeer set off to deliver Christmas gifts tonight, one wonders if their jobs may be replaced by the march of technology. A McKinsey Global Institute study suggests they might. The report, Jobs Lost, Jobs Gained: Workforce Transitions in a Time of Automation, suggests job losses will be greatest where tasks are predictable and physical — such as freight delivery — but claims there will be gains in other areas, for example, for professionals and managers. Routine jobs are more at risk of automation than non-routine ones.
This would represent little more than a continuation of what […]
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