3 days agoAutomatic robots will cut “800 million jobs
Periskopi(9 years ago)
(9 years ago)Up to 800 million workers across the globe will lose their jobs by 2030 and will be replaced by automatic robots. This is the conclusion in which a study conducted in 46 countries is released from the global Institute “McKinsey”, under which a fifth of the workforce [...]
Up to 800 million workers across the globe will lose their jobs by 2030 and will be replaced by automatic robots.
This is the conclusion in which a study conducted in 46 countries is released from the global Institute “McKinsey”, under which a fifth of the global workforce will be affected.
In the study, a third of the labour force in wealthy countries like Germany and the United States may need to be trained for other jobs. Machine operators and food sector employees will be hit the hardest.
Poor countries, which have fewer palà to invest in automation, will not be affected in these sizes.
According to the authors of the study, India will have about 9 percent of its jobs replaced by new technologies. The authors think that responsibilities carried out by waiters, accountants and others by support staff are particularly vulnerable to automation.
Works that need human interaction, such as doctors, lawyers, teachers or barists, are less exposed to automation. Specific jobs, such as gardeners, plumbers, or social care, will also be slightly affected by automation.
In developed countries, the need for higher education will increase, while jobs requiring less education will be reduced. In the United States alone, 39 to 73 million jobs can be eliminated by 2030, but some 20 million of this labor force can easily pass into other industries.
In Britain, 20 percent of current jobs will be automated in the same period. The authors say the world will see a transition of a scale like that of early 1900, when most of the global industry moved from farms to factories.
But, they also underline that new technology will require new types of work, such as when personal computers appeared in the 1980s, which led to technological support and business <x0online”. The authors, meanwhile, urge governments to implement plans to retrain their citizens.
