Automation is changing the world
- loriebuckingham
- Apr 1, 2019
- 1 min read
Companies are rapidly automating and the resulting job impact will touch many. How do you we prepare for this and adapt to this new reality?
According to the Future of Jobs Report 2018 (World Economic Forum) we are in a new human-machine frontier. Of the companies covered in the report, in 2018 71% of the work is performed by humans and 29% by machines. By 2022, this is expected to shift to 58% by humans and 42% by machines.
Not all types of jobs are impacted by the skills that are being replaced with machines will have significant impact on people.
In the report, one set of estimated indicated that 75 million jobs may be displaced. At the same time 133 million new roles may emerge that are more adapted to the new division of roles between humans and machines.
So while there are more jobs, how do we rapidly transition the workforce to this digital world?
One Planet Life, LLC thinks that exposing people to the technologies and then learning through doing can help people gain a fast footing in this new world.