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Automation, COVID, And The Future Of Work

The Horizons Tracker

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.

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Technology Isn’t Destroying Jobs, But Is Increasing Inequality

The Horizons Tracker

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?

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Avoiding The Technology Trap In The Future Of Work

The Horizons Tracker

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.

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7 Reasons You Should Attend SOBCon Colorado

Terry Starbucker

As Kneale Mann, 2010 Chicago attendee, put it , “SOBCon is about full participation. I’ll let SOBConer Amber Osborne (aka Miss Destructo) have the last word : “What I have found at SOBCon is real, honest and supportive people that I have only known previously behind a computer screen. If you attend, you work.

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Yes, You Can Brainstorm Without Groupthink

Harvard Business Review

In articles in both the New York Times and The New Yorker earlier this year, the concept of brainstorming as introduced in the 1940's by Alex Osborn has been attacked as ineffective and linked to the concept of " Groupthink.". Anyone, alone or with other people if they need or want help, can pick any idea and develop it further.

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Digital Transformation Doesn’t Have to Leave Employees Behind

Harvard Business Review

This post is one in a series of perspectives by presenters and participants in the 7th Global Drucker Forum. Osborne from Oxford University calculated that about 47% of American jobs could disappear by 2020 due to digitization. The third step is about developing an organization that will foster digital practices.

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Research: Technology Is Only Making Social Skills More Important

Harvard Business Review

Osborne, researchers at the Oxford Martin School, published a paper estimating that 47% of all U.S. ” To illustrate the value of this flexibility, Deming developed a model. Automation anxiety reached new heights in 2013, when Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael A.