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 at Work. I was understandably curious therefore to see if Technology at Work 4.0

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The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Now, however, we’re in a third-generation of the learning organization, with new technologies speeding up the rate at which we can both absorb new information and test our assumptions. This is coupled with a need to deploy those learnings over longer timescales as problems take on a global and complex nature. Creating a culture of learning.

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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. Technology can also disempower workers and be used to intrusively monitor their every action.” ” Augmenting work.

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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. Many managers believe that the best way to run their teams is to have no wastage or slack at all.

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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. Far from being a destroyer of jobs therefore, what technology does seem to do is help inequality between those with skills and those without.

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The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Since Frey and Osborne’s hugely popular paper in 2014, the traditional narrative surrounding automation at work has been that millions of jobs will be lost to the march of technologies such as robotics and artificial intelligence. And those are the kinds of things that managers tend to do.”. Creating jobs.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2015

It has also has inspired scholarship by academics such as Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael Osborne of Oxford University, who estimate that 47% of occupations in the United States could be automated within 20 years, and David Autor of MIT, who argues that the ability of machines to take on human jobs is vastly overstated.

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