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How And When Automation May Affect Long-Haul Trucking

The Horizons Tracker

In Oxford’s Michael Osborne and Carl Benedikt Frey’s hugely influential 2013 paper looking at the likelihood of automation for various professions, truck driving was one of the professions that were projected to be automated in double-quick time. At risk (kind of). We hope to help resolve these controversies.”.

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Doomsday Predictions Around ChatGPT Are Counter-Productive

The Horizons Tracker

job market. Feeling in control One would not think the jobs market was in such rude health if you only listen to the hype surrounding chatGPT, however, and this distinction matters for our prospects in the future of work. The sector recorded a net increase of 3.2%, resulting in the addition of over 280,000 jobs nationwide.

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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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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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Is 8 Hours Of Work Per Week Ideal For Our Health And Wellbeing?

The Horizons Tracker

Back in 2013, Oxford researchers Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael Osborne predicted that 47% of jobs would be automated within a decade. As labor market reforms have come and gone in the meantime, the general length of the working day has stubbornly endured.

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Digital Transformation Doesn’t Have to Leave Employees Behind

Harvard Business Review

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. Roland Berger applied its methodology to the French labor market and estimated that 42% of French jobs could be at risk.

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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. So it still pays to be good at math in today’s labor market, but it’s often no longer enough.