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Wednesday, January 20, 2016
Over 5 million jobs will be lost due to The Fourth Industrial Revolution, report says
By Yuan Can
Disruptive labor market changes will result in a loss of more than 5.1 million jobs from 2015 to 2020, according to a latest report by World Economic Forum (WEF ).
The Fourth Industrial Revolution , which includes developments in previously disjointed fields such as artificial intelligence and machine-learning , robotics , nanotechnology , 3-D printing , and genetics and biotechnology , will cause widespread disruption not only to business models but also to labor markets over the next five years , according to the report ,The Future of Jobs , published Monday by the WEF .
This trend will lead to a loss of more than 5 million jobs in 15 major developed and emerging economies , said the report .
The report predicts that in the next five years there will be a total loss of 7.1 million jobs —two thirds of which are concentrated in routine white collar office functions , such as office and administrative roles —and a total gain of 2 million jobs , in computer and mathematical and Architecture and Engineering related fields .
"In its scale , scope , and complexity , the transformation will be unlike anything humankind has experienced before ," wrote Klaus Schwab , Founder and Executive Chairman of WEF in his latest article called The Fourth Industrial Revolution : what it means , how to respond .
Compared with previous industrial revolutions , the Fourth is evolving at an exponential rather than a linear pace , said Schwab . Moreover , it is disrupting almost every industry in every country . And the breadth and depth of these changes herald the transformation of entire systems of production , management , and governance .
According to a latest international survey , four out of 10 young people around the world worry that robot will replace them in the future workforce due to rapid development of technology .
Commissioned by Indian business and software services firm Infosys , the study surveyed around 1,000 16-to 25-year-olds in Australia , Brazil , Britain , China , France , Germany ,India and the United States , as well as South Africa , where a smaller sample of 700 was polled . Young people in developed economies are more worried about their future jobs .
Nearly 80 per cent of interviewees think that it is a must to keep learning in order to gain competitiveness ahead of rapid development of technology .
Globally , while almost two-thirds of those queried said they felt positive about their job prospects , those in developing economies were far more optimistic than their peers in developed markets . In India , 60 per cent said they think they have the skills needed for their careers , just a quarter were similarly optimistic in France , the poll found .
The survey shows that nearly 50 per cent of interviewees from developed markets said that the education they received is not suitable for jobs .
According to Infosys Chief Executive Vishal Sikka , technologies have evolved far faster than what was thought possible even 10 years ago , while the educational system remains wedded to practices initially designed for agrarian societies 300 years ago .
"We must transition away from our past ; shift the focus from learning what we already know to an education focused on exploring what hasn ’t happened yet ," said Sikka .
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