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Ten million British jobs to be taken over by computers and robots over the next 20 years, wiping out more than one in three roles.
Low-paid, repetitive positions are most likely to go, with people earning less than £30,000 a year five times more likely to see their jobs taken over by machines than those paid £100,000, new research has warned.
Huge advances in technology risks creating an under-class of low-skilled people whose jobs have been automated, according to a joint report from Deloitte, the Big Four accountancy firm, and the University of Oxford.
The research predicts that as much as 35pc of jobs across the country will be made redundant by technical advances over the next 10 to 20 years – some 10.8m positions.
Low-paid, repetitive positions are most likely to go, with people earning less than £30,000 a year five times more likely to see their jobs taken over by machines than those paid £100,000, new research has warned.
Huge advances in technology risks creating an under-class of low-skilled people whose jobs have been automated, according to a joint report from Deloitte, the Big Four accountancy firm, and the University of Oxford.
The research predicts that as much as 35pc of jobs across the country will be made redundant by technical advances over the next 10 to 20 years – some 10.8m positions.
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I deliberately you the normal checkout in Salisbury's not the self service
Not long now till us low of the low get bumped off in the middle of the night
can never understand why the obvious is like shock research i.e train tickets
going on oyster/smart cards thats 1000's out of work
Dartford tunnel you now have to spend your time to pay the crossing fee/sure others on here
will have different views on their jobs
self/service tills in shops etc. But in 50 years time will anybody leave the house
that's if we are still here
roll on utopia'
can never understand why the obvious is like shock research i.e train tickets
going on oyster/smart cards thats 1000's out of work
Dartford tunnel you now have to spend your time to pay the crossing fee/sure others on here
will have different views on their jobs
self/service tills in shops etc. But in 50 years time will anybody leave the house
that's if we are still here
roll on utopia'
I read this late last year and then read an article endorsed by Stephen Hawkings who went further- predicting 47% of jobs to go.
Last week - bricklaying: -reports of a robot now lay 2000 bricks a day ;
relative of mine - just out of university with phd - stares down a microscope examining/ searching for specific types of micro fossils- a marker for oil reserves - highly specialised and well paid ?- yes- up until 2 months ago- a computer programme can now to do this.
7 screen cinema on holiday - 4 floors of building - self checkin / all food vended - 4 staff
airports abroad- self checkin including baggage -very quick - stand alone terminals and just plonk your bags on carousel
self driving cars/ lorries next
Last week - bricklaying: -reports of a robot now lay 2000 bricks a day ;
relative of mine - just out of university with phd - stares down a microscope examining/ searching for specific types of micro fossils- a marker for oil reserves - highly specialised and well paid ?- yes- up until 2 months ago- a computer programme can now to do this.
7 screen cinema on holiday - 4 floors of building - self checkin / all food vended - 4 staff
airports abroad- self checkin including baggage -very quick - stand alone terminals and just plonk your bags on carousel
self driving cars/ lorries next
Don't panic. Been hearing this since the 1960's aint happened yet. Everything changes including work.
The problem is as wages rise, companies will find it cheaper to use machinery for these jobs. If they had no minimum wage, and it was cheaper to hire a person than to get a machine to do the job. That's why I propose a minimum wage of 10 pence per hour.
I heard this same nonsense on Tomorrow's World 35 years ago. How we would all have it so easy and enjoy loads of leisure time. 35 years later people have never worked so hard.
I've just looked on Youtube (only one clip I may add) at a bricklaying robot. The the computer generated clip looked quite good, the prototype looked awful though. I think my job's safe from robots.
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