{"id":18077,"date":"2022-01-21T13:55:53","date_gmt":"2022-01-21T18:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=18077"},"modified":"2022-01-25T15:55:43","modified_gmt":"2022-01-25T20:55:43","slug":"34-of-jobs-risk-being-lost-to-automation-by-2040","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/34-of-jobs-risk-being-lost-to-automation-by-2040\/","title":{"rendered":"34% Of Jobs Risk Being Lost To Automation By 2040"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-ar-index=\"0\">Forrester&#8217;s Future of Jobs Forecast has shown that about 12 million jobs could be lost to automation across Europe by 2040.<\/p>\n<p data-ar-index=\"1\">Industries set to be affected include retail, food services, leisure, and hospitality. Mid-skill labor jobs that consist of simple, routine tasks are most at risk from automation.<\/p>\n<p data-ar-index=\"2\">However, embracing automation will create nine million new jobs by 2040 in emerging sectors like green energy and smart cities.<\/p>\n<p data-ar-index=\"3\">This means only three million jobs will be lost to automation by 2040 but there is also the position that those who lose their jobs may not find new ones.<\/p>\n<p data-ar-index=\"4\">A lot of organizations are embracing automation due to several challenges including productivity loss due and staff shortages to the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p data-ar-index=\"5\">Business leaders are also contemplating using automation technology to fill in the gap created by Europe&#8217;s aging population. Forrester described it as &#8220;a demographic time bomb.&#8221; Business leaders agree that exploring the role of automation can be vital in bridging skills shortages and speeding up processes in the enterprise.<\/p>\n<p data-ar-index=\"7\">For more information, read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/automation-could-make-12-million-jobs-redundant-heres-whos-most-at-risk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> in ZDNet<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forrester&#8217;s Future of Jobs Forecast has shown that about 12 million jobs could be lost to automation across Europe by 2040.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-careers-education"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18077"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18094,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18077\/revisions\/18094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}