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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.

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Digital Transformation Doesn’t Have to Leave Employees Behind

Harvard Business Review

At a more macro level, the possibilities opened up by connected, more efficient production and new business models are also highly promising. In 2013 Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael A. Osborne from Oxford University calculated that about 47% of American jobs could disappear by 2020 due to digitization. trillion euros.

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Research: Technology Is Only Making Social Skills More Important

Harvard Business Review

Automation anxiety reached new heights in 2013, when Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael A. Osborne, researchers at the Oxford Martin School, published a paper estimating that 47% of all U.S. jobs were “at risk” of being computerized over the next two decades. Dan is a stronger writer; Sarina is better at working with data.