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A paradigm shift is expected to be witnessed in the wayworkplaces operate over the next 15 years, making nearly 50 per cent of occupations existing today redundant by 2025, a report has said.
Artificial intelligence will transform businesses and the work that people do. Process work, customer work and vast swathes of middle management will simply disappear, it said.
The report titled 'Fast Forward 2030: The Future of Work and the Workplace' has been prepared by realty consulting firmCBRE and China-based Genesis, a property developer, after interviewing 220 experts, business leaders and young people from Asia, Europe and North America.
http://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/50-of-occupations-today-will-no-longer-exist-in-2025-report-114110701279_1.html
This prediction is a frightening one for those of us at the age where we are not old enough to not work, but too old to retrain and start over.
What does too old to retrain mean? I was teaching my 11 year old German Shepherd things until the day he died. I learn new things every day and really enjoy researching things and learning new information. A lot of business has already made the shift into the online world, and you are at least capable and proficient enough to navigate and use a message board so learning new Internet and computer based skills seems well within your ability to attain given the facts I previously stated.
I think its probably a bit easier to teach your 11 year old dog to roll over than it is to teach a 60 year old life long Postal Clerk to be a Web Developer.
One that doesn't have a lick of computer or Internet skills, sure, but I can't feel too sorry for them, that technology has existed for many, many years now. If they were unable to see the trends of the future coming their way, the responsibility falls on their shoulders.
What does too old to retrain mean? I was teaching my 11 year old German Shepherd things until the day he died. I learn new things every day and really enjoy researching things and learning new information. A lot of business has already made the shift into the online world, and you are at least capable and proficient enough to navigate and use a message board so learning new Internet and computer based skills seems well within your ability to attain given the facts I previously stated.
Machines took more than 50% of jobs in the last few decades and computers will take another 50% in the next decade. It does indeed make you wonder what people will do for employment. I spent my life herding cows and fixing fences, no robot or computer for that. Well not yet anyway.
What does too old to retrain mean? I was teaching my 11 year old German Shepherd things until the day he died. I learn new things every day and really enjoy researching things and learning new information. A lot of business has already made the shift into the online world, and you are at least capable and proficient enough to navigate and use a message board so learning new Internet and computer based skills seems well within your ability to attain given the facts I previously stated.
Thanks Obama
Um yeah actually they can use drones to heard the cows and they do have robots that can mend the fences sorry, but they can't stop you from watching the grass grow! That one's ours dang it!
I'm retired now but in a hard scrabble environment you will never replace a man on a horse to ride the fence line and babysit the scattered cattle. Unfortunately most Americans don't want this kind of work anymore so it will be illegals doing it for the most part.
One that doesn't have a lick of computer or Internet skills, sure, but I can't feel too sorry for them, that technology has existed for many, many years now. If they were unable to see the trends of the future coming their way, the responsibility falls on their shoulders.
This prediction is a frightening one for those of us at the age where we are not old enough to not work, but too old to retrain and start over.
Machines took more than 50% of jobs in the last few decades and computers will take another 50% in the next decade. It does indeed make you wonder what people will do for employment.
I love my horses, and riding them. I like my ATV and driving them. But I'll admit flying that drone with a live feed go pro was cool.....I think it's illegal but my closest neighbor is 21 miles away and not likely to report me. The drone can't fix the fence but can cure a whole day of looking for the break
I work in a field where we are often seen as 'replacing' people (machine learning, data/process automation). I can assure people that while it can seem like we kick people out of jobs, we create more opportunity for employment than remove it. It's down to the finance/HR people to decide whether they want to fill that opportunity with new hires.
As far as training goes, there are now hundreds of online resources where you can learn new skills that are being taken by young and old alike. From Harvard Computer Science courses to Financial Accounting at Wharton Business School. All for free. Even 60 year old postal clerks can do that (and make no mistake, some already are).
Way to be an asshole. First off, you are assuming that people have the time and money to even learn these things in the first place, which many are not in a position to do. If you've been doing postal work for the past forty years, why would you think that all of a sudden you need web skills?
This is more blaming people BS disguised as 'personal responsibility.'
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