The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

This is backed up by research from the University of Basel, which found that the most important determining factor of success in both one’s education and career was one’s aspirations. Not only have those breathless fears not come to pass but we’re actually in a period of historically low unemployment.

Productivity 94

Productivity Products Altman Osborne 94

The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Indeed, the unemployment rate has remained low throughout the decade since Oxford’s Frey and Osborne ignited the latest wave of concern about the impact of technology on jobs. Operate with slack – This is perhaps the most important element and something I’ve written about in the past.

Organization 88

Organization Osborne Bottom-up Attrition 88

The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 5, 2020

The paper takes particular aim at the famous Frey & Osborne paper that has spawned so many of the dire predictions, both in terms of the methodology used when making the predictions, and the evidence to date in the six years since the research was published. Exaggerated expectations.

Osborne 52

Osborne Short-term Document Technology 52

The Horizons Tracker

JULY 6, 2020

Despite minimal evidence of technological redundancies since the famous paper on the topic by Carl Frey and Michael Osborne in 2013, fears have barely abated in the intervening years.

Osborne 81

Osborne Technology Quality Cost 81

The Horizons Tracker

MAY 8, 2023

This seems to be the case today, with the infamous analysis from Frey and Osborne also suggesting that professions like nurses would be little impacted by the wave of automation that was set to wash over us. The researchers also found that technology wasn’t negative in a uniform manner.

Technology 102

Technology Osborne Skills Learning-by-Doing 102

The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Ever since Oxford’s Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael Osborne published their paper on the potential for jobs to be automated in 2013, a groundswell of concern has emerged about the impact of the various technologies of the 4th industrial revolution might have on the jobs market.

Osborne 83

Osborne Report Marketing Technology 83

The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 1, 2019

Oxford University researchers Carl Benedikt Frey shot to public attention in 2013 when he and colleague Michael Osborne released research in which they predicted that 47% of jobs could be automated within the next decade or so.

Technology 64

Technology Short-term Osborne Long-term 64