Posted on 01/20/2016 2:22:58 PM PST by presidio9
Robotics are going to cause changes to the workforce in the next five years, but don't start running with those robot-takeover conspiracy theories just yet.
About 5.1 million jobs will be lost by the year 2020 because of "disruptive labour market changes," predicts the World Economic Forum in a new study. Many of the factors driving change are technological, like the Internet, big data and robotics.
The types of jobs most negatively affected by market disruptions are office and administrative, manufacturing and production and construction and extraction, according to the study.
One of the biggest changes workers can expect to see is a change in the kind of skills they're required to use.
"Technological disruptions such as robotics and machine learning -- rather than completely replacing existing occupations and job categories -- are likely to substitute specific tasks previously carried out as part of these jobs, freeing workers up to focus on new tasks and leading to rapidly changing core skill sets in these occupations," the report explains.
Those skill sets will be highly social, the report predicts.
"Overall, social skills -- such as persuasion, emotional intelligence and teaching others -- will be in higher demand across industries than narrow technical skills, such as programming or equipment operation and control."
The report also predicts the creation of jobs that we may not have even dreamed of yet.
"By one popular estimate, 65 percent of children entering primary school today will ultimately end up working in completely new job types that don't yet exist," the report reads.
As for the jobs that already exist,
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Had to send this PING on to my favorite ROBOT
But robots don’t pay taxes.
How many jobs did Obama and the Democrats eliminate in 7 years?
Abortion has the same effect on jobs. And the human capital deficit is why we import workers from other countries.
Obama and the Democrats eliminated a lot of jobs, but the Government payroll grew...
Robots could do what ABC news does now!
So let me see. hummm. The Social Security department will be replaced by robotic agents? How will we know if VA clinic staff has been replaced by robots? The California DMV and every other DMV across the nation will replace their surly crews with robots? Can robots unionize? I doubt they would want to if they were shown pictures of cars being fed into a shredder.
So let’s drag in millions more immigrants to compete for fewer and fewer jobs....
But robots don’t pay taxes.
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Yep, gov’t has to build that collection in to the down line purchaser.
A lot of people hate innovation, but innovation is the birth pangs of new economic frontiers. The headline, as alarmist as it is, only tells you the bad news. The good news is that other jobs will open up in new industries that will spring up to support these new economic and industrial frontiers.
As there’s pain in giving birth, so there’s pain in having to retrain some into new occupations. But innovation and disruption that goes with it brings great benefit overall especially as we in America gain/maintain the economic edge and American lifestyles improve as it always has as a result.
Everything from cab and bus drivers to train conductors to airline pilots can be automated to replace almost all human interaction. I am even reading doctors can be eliminated - you walk in and sit in a tube and machine diagnosis you and maybe down the road can perform an operation. That is how far robotics have come.
I know it sounds fanciful but we are kind of seeing this happen slowly. Even pizza/food delivery can be replaced by drones soon.
The only job I don't see being automated is an artist - people like art and to be entertained and plumbers and carpenters. If you are thinking of having kids - think about these kinds of trades for them to go to.
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We are heading maybe to a paradigm shift where innovation may not create new human labor demands as it has been in the past.
RE: Innovation (including robots) will eliminate 5 million jobs by 2020, study finds
The imminent arrival of the $15 minimum wage plus Mandatory salary payment while on leave and other government mandated benefits will probably accelerate the process.
It’s similar to what people saw happen to home-based industries when the first factories appeared.
Although I’m at a lose as to where people will work once robots take over some of these sectors.
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