The Two Reasons Behind Why Robots Won't Steal Your Job
- Computers are being trained to conduct highly-repetitive tasks. This then fosters a work environment that will place more focus on complex tasks for those with competitive salaries and widen the range of interesting careers.
- The competitive disadvantage will disappear. New roles will be offered and provided to those who want to enter the workforce. Younger workers are then more likely to be pioneers instead of trying to compete with their seniors.
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The World Economic Forum released a report that gave an estimate of 85 million jobs will be displaced by the year 2025, between humans and machines. However, this is not to scare us.
Thanks to the advances in technology many business processes are able to be conducted with the less marginal error or human error. Varying industries now use chatbots that have NLP (Natural Language Processing) while others use RPA (Robotic Process Automation).
As technologies advance, products and services are only being driven sky-high. The demand for new jobs in the industries under care economy and green economy presents great opportunities to fall under the umbrellas of:
- Cloud computing
- Marketing
- Content Production
- People and Culture
- Data and AI
- Product Development
- Engineering; and
- Sales.
- Find out what you are interested in and do some research.
- Follow people who are in roles you are interested in and try to connect with them after you've studied their work
- Master the skills needed in the industry you are interested in and add them to your resume.
- Keep learning and adapting to the times.
- Find out your strengths and the uniqueness in you.
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So what gives people gravitas? “A sense of weight, importance and power,” said Brett. “Someone serious, whose words you listen to, someone you trust and respect.” And those who didn’t possess it? “Lightweights, people who talk too much or joke around. Or worse, the ones who spin the truth so you don’t know whether to trust them.”
When we're talking about robots taking people's jobs, we're speaking of automation.
Mechanical automation, like car assembly lines, has been around for a while.
Software automation, also known as process or work automation, involves using code to automate tasks that humans would otherwise have to do, like creating an invoice in an accounting program.
Having a debate with your boss or your colleague is normal or a disagreement. However, fighting is not.
There are several forms of conflict that may manifest as:
- People who pretend that there is no problem when clearly there is;
- People who are outright aggressive and competitive; and
- People who are knee-deep passively-aggressive.