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. Feeling vulnerable.

Osborne 112

Osborne Report Marketing Transportation 112

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 70

Technology Short-term Osborne Long-term 70

The Horizons Tracker

MAY 8, 2019

Whilst the likes of the Frey and Osborne paper predicted a pretty widespread demolition of 47% of all jobs, the reality is that those with low-skilled, routine jobs are far more at risk. What’s more, there is little sign that those skills are going to be developed. So what can be done?

Technology 84

Technology Osborne Education Skills 84

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2015

Osborne, researchers at the Oxford Martin School, published a paper estimating that 47% of all U.S. In the paper, David Deming, an assistant professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, explains that since the ‘80s, job and wage growth has been strongest in occupations requiring both high cognitive and high social skills.

Technology 8

Technology Skills Deming Osborne 8