Automation and robots encroach on up to 800 million jobs around the world

[Bradley Prior]

Automation and robots encroach on up to 800 million jobs around the world

Advances in automation technology threaten a significant share of jobs in industries accounting for nearly a quarter of the global workforce, according to Bloomberg Economics’ estimates. [Bloomberg]

 

[Jet-Fighter7700]

if you cant beat them, join them,
programmers and maintenance will still be done by squidgy organics.

also SA, will definetly stay behind, as otherwise the petrol attendants will burn the robots to the ground.

 

[Rocket-Boy]

In enterprise IT the focus has been on automation for a while now.
It doesnt always work out as intended and more often than not results in a lot of wasted effort.

Its really a case of picking those battles carefully until the tools mature enough. I do see it affecting a lot of the lower tier jobs though in the near future.

 

[hj007]

if you cant beat them, join them,
programmers and maintenance will still be done by squidgy organics.

also SA, will definetly stay behind, as otherwise the petrol attendants will burn the robots to the ground.

we need robots to protect the other robots.

And when we came to turn off our robot overlords we tried to scorch the sky.