Posted on 11/07/2014 4:44:58 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
A paradigm shift is expected to be witnessed in the way workplaces operate over the next 15 years, making nearly 50 per cent of occupations existing today redundant by 2025, a report has said.
Artificial intelligence will transform businesses and the work that people do. Process work, customer work and vast swathes of middle management will simply disappear, it said.
The report titled 'Fast Forward 2030: The Future of Work and the Workplace' has been prepared by realty consulting firm CBRE and China-based Genesis, a property developer, after interviewing 220 experts, business leaders and young people from Asia, Europe and North America.
"Nearly 50 per cent of occupations today will no longer exist in 2025. New jobs will require creative intelligence, social and emotional intelligence and ability to leverage artificial intelligence. Those jobs will be immensely more fulfilling than today's jobs," the report said.
Workspaces with row of desks will become completely redundant, not because they are not fit for purpose, but simply because that purpose no longer exists, it said.
"The next 15 years will see a revolution in how we work, and a corresponding revolution will necessarily take place on how we plan and think about workplaces.
"The dramatic changes in how people work that we have seen in the past two decades will continue to evolve over the next 15 years, opening up new opportunities for companies to create value and enhance employee performance through innovative workplace strategies and designs," CBRE South Asia Chairman and Managing Director Anshuman Magazine said...
(Excerpt) Read more at business-standard.com ...
The world will always need ditchdiggers.
Futurists and their predictions are always funny.
And here I was placing all my hopes on being a “greeter” at walmart...
I’ll believe it when I see it.
You’re quite the slouch.
I think we will go through a ten to fifteen year period where the undisputed accuracy and efficiency of robots will be the deciding factor. For a couple of years, robots will absorb a large chunck of pink, blue collar and some white collar jobs. Then, I think we will reach a point where many things are perceived at once.
We will realize that too many people are being made jobless by this wall to wall robotizing of society. There may be certain quotas for human employees made standard practice. A lot of us will miss the day to day human interaction we all used to take for granted. At this point, some industries will play up as a selling point that ‘we employee people, who talk to you, and listen to you, we are virtually robot-free, come see for yourself! At this point we may have a generation of children who have truly never learned how to act around other people in a cooperative manner. That will also need to be deliberately resumed. Lovers may have never learned how to socialize and have spontaneous fun. Charm Schools, under a different name will come back in great demand.
There will always be jobs for people who know how to fix mechanical stuff.
Robot hamburger factory makes 360 Gourmet Burgers every hour...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3100817/posts
Pizza pronto! Vending machine that rustles up a fresh pie in just THREE minutes...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3189482/posts
If you have children, teach them skills; send them to technical schools, and train them from birth to be entrepreneurial.
I’LL BE DEAD-WHO CARES?
Jobs are already disappearing because of technology.
In the end, we will all be slaves to the machines. And the that end is closer than many realize.
First technology came for blue collar jobs--it is now coming for white collar jobs.
Think about it: why should anyone pay you for what you know, when they can Google the answer in seconds?
Soon, they won't even have to search for it.
They will be able to ask their computers for the information they need by simply talking to it or writing to it, just as with a human knowledge worker.
Technology replacing jobs will be the biggest human work life disaster in history, because unlike the industrial revolution there will be no where to run except government relief.
It will be the end of freedom.
It has already started, and it's effects will over time increase exponentially.
This is not the stuff of science fiction. This is real.
For some reason you make me recall an old story...true or not, I do not know...
Back when the steam shovel was first invented,
there was a big public display of its abilities.
The creators claimed that their invention could do the work of 100 men.
The laborers bemoaned that, saying it would put shovelers out of work.
The creators of the steam shovel replied,
“then why not take away your shovels and use 1000 men with teaspoons”.
...or something like that...
The people that won’t be. Jackass.
And I remember when people used to make a living repairing TV's, too.
There is so much more to eating out at a restaurant than just the food. Sometimes, that really is all I want, and the sooner the better. Other times, say at a sit down, clean tablecloth kind of place, I want to take my time and absorb the ambiance.
I am not wanting to spend the evening talking (or yelling) into a smiling clown face with a microphone taped onto the mouth. I could do that now at a drive through. I recall going to a nice restaurant in Chattanooga years ago, where a man entertained us as a ventriloquist, and took requests from the audience on what he and ‘his pal’ should sing. I include holograms in that theory too. They have their place, but then so does the actual person in real time and three dimensions.
Or send them to a sales course. My late father said that during the Great Depression the families of successful salesmen had plenty of food, new cars, nice clothes and more.
At least a 1000 men with teaspoons would still have jobs.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.