Save time by listening to our audio articles as you multitaskWonks had plenty of reason to worry. Recessions cause many companies’ revenues, but not wages, to fall, making workers less affordable. Some previous downturns had produced bursts of job-killing automation, depriving people of work and leaving them at least temporarily on the economic scrapheap. Covid seemed to pose an extra threat to workers. People get sick; robots do not. Past pandemics, research suggests, have hastened automation.
More than two years on, however, it is hard to find much evidence of job-killing automation. Rather than workers complaining about a shortage of jobs, bosses complain about a shortage of workers. Across theclub of mostly rich countries, there is an unusually large number of unfilled vacancies, even as recession nears. In many countries the wages of the lowest-paid, the people thought to be most at risk of losing their job to a robot, are rising the fastest.
To test the doomsters’ predictions more directly, we dug into occupational data for America, Australia and Britain. Borrowing a methodology developed by the Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis, we divided occupations into “routine” and “nonroutine” buckets. Routine jobs involve repetitive movements, which can be more easily learned by a machine or computer, making them in theory more vulnerable to automation.
Over time, and especially during past recessions, routine jobs have declined as a share of the workforce . But during the pandemic the rate of decline actually slowed. In the two years before the pandemic automatable jobs in Australia, as a share of the total, fell by 1.8 percentage points. In the two subsequent years they fell by 0.6 percentage points. We find similar trends in Britain, though a recent coding change makes analysis trickier.
Economists are now working on theories which will be less prone to malfunction. Perhaps the routine roles which remain are particularly difficult to automate. Perhaps in some cases technology actually improves, rather than damages, workers’ prospects. For now a simple rule will suffice: next time you hear a blood-curdling prediction about robots and jobs, think twice.
Like all people I was born free from sin and crime, why did the environmentpeople attack me like most people, forcing them to sin and be criminals? We can have a right to defend ourselves against this! Even protective services! Has there been Human extinction in past?
The machinery is backordered…
The reality is companies who could automate long ago did so. Nobody likes human workers if they can be avoided, which is a bit sad.
Most probably a case changing landscape and skill mismatch. Anyway follow motormetry to get curated news about cars from around the world
That's because this privileged Tory Government, led by the ERG Tory backbenchers, who had too much influence over the Brexit deal Johnson and Frost agreed with the EU, we need to urgently renegotiate entry into the EU single Market, before the UK goes completely 'down the pan.'
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Businesses should not be built upon a foundation of cheap labour.
Who will buy the product if robots replace human labor. I don't think they thought this one through.
Yeah.. whatever happened to that robot civil war that was going to enslave us all?
In the UK, Brexit was supposed to stop East Europeans from taking all our jobs...jobs which, it now turns out, we can't find anyone willing to do.
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Literally no one said that
Short sighted article. Automation is happening, but adaptation is the key to a more vibrant future.
Hard to find evidence of job-killing automation Really? Why invest in automaton when people are cheap? Automation needs large capital exp. People don’t Machines breakdown - people are sacked when they do Machines stop for maintenance - people are sent home
Ironically, The AI will eventually replace the person that wrote this post
Especially when tech companies are laying off all the people they bred recently during covid.
Labor? The source of *MY* value?!
I think Companies are putting entirely too many barriers to entry for the”good” jobs and the low paying jobs are just not worth working considering the cost of living…
Covid adversely hit developed economies and the spill over is felt in LDC's
“Rather than workers complaining about a shortage of jobs, bosses complain about a shortage of workers” Economist And according to “free market” principles, how’s that translating into higher wages? Uh…maybe not…
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we have overexploited and underinvested in our workforce (as well as education) for 10+ years, strange how there's now a shortage of skilled workers 🤔
Sounds good to me.
You're being petty: what about all the employment provided by idiotically repetitious Hollywood dystopies?
Automation is happening. No matter what.
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Did GPT3 write this article, with some stable diffusion thrown in? I can’t tell.
Wuhan virus was made in China , export to world.
It's coming.
I beg to differ....
I’m thinking covid was a test from the ones in control. Or at least they think they’re in control. I’ll stand back and watch for now.
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Because govt agencies are cooking up jobs numbers
Covid was meant for a lot, and I think 1 was to see how easy it was to control populations. And, of course, the sheep did not disappoint.
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No robot,more jobs
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