Automation will do away with most existing jobs but it will also create new ones. Retraining in a massive scale will be necessary.
In particular, manual laborers are at risk of unemployment in the absence of retraining, as the new jobs will be in more specialized areas. Governments and employers in every sector are being urged to retrain and re-skill workers to avoid a crisis.
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