The Horizons Tracker

MAY 8, 2023

Interestingly, this process meant that those workers with the highest salaries saw the biggest slowdown in their income, despite having the most advanced skills. The researchers believe this might be due to the lower investment made by younger workers in skills that had become obsolete, while also having more time to invest in new skills.

Technology 122

Technology Osborne Skills Learning-by-Doing 122

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 111

Productivity Products Altman Osborne 111

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 117

Organization Osborne Bottom-up Attrition 117

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 117

Osborne Report Marketing Transportation 117

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 93

Osborne Technology Quality Cost 93

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 72

Technology Short-term Osborne Long-term 72

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. The thing is, those with low skills have been on the receiving end of pretty much every shift in the labor market over the past decade.

Technology 85

Technology Osborne Education Skills 85