Monday, November 10, 2014

Ten million UK jobs at risk from robots

Ten million British jobs could be taken over by computers and robots over the next 20 years, wiping out more than one in three roles.

Low-paid, repetitive positions are most likely to go, with people earning less than £30,000 a year five times more likely to see their jobs taken over by machines than those paid £100,000, new research has warned.

Huge advances in technology risks creating an under-class of low-skilled people whose jobs have been automated, according to a joint report from Deloitte, the Big Four accountancy firm, and the University of Oxford .... http://www.telegraph.co.uk