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The automation of employee tasks has hardly increased in recent years, despite the tightness on the labor market. That’s the conclusion of it Future of Jobs-report from the World Economic Forum (WEF). It is the fourth edition of the international survey, in which hundreds of companies worldwide are asked about changes in the labor market.
At the companies asked, 34 percent of the tasks are currently automated. In the previous edition of the report in 2020, this was 33 percent.
In 2018, employers still expected that 42 percent of tasks would be automated by 2022. Employers now expect to reach that percentage in 2027. This is an average, because the speed at which tasks are automated differs per type of task. The degree of automation will be higher for data and information processing than for communication or decision-making tasks.
Redundant skills
Some of the skills that employees have now will become obsolete in the next five years due to automation. According to the report, approximately six in ten employees will therefore need additional education or training before 2027. This mainly concerns analytical skills or dealing with artificial intelligence.
Currently, less than half of employees have access to sufficient training resources. And precisely that can be an obstacle for employers to implement major changes.
Employers expect an increase of 69 million jobs and a decrease of 83 million jobs over the next five years. Worldwide, this means a decrease of 2 percent in current employment.
A large proportion of the companies asked expect that technological developments will lead to job losses, but that this will lead to more jobs in other places, so that there will eventually be more jobs. Only developments in the field of robots will lead to net job losses, the companies expect.
2023-04-30 22:17:02
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