Robots will cut 25% of US jobs in 4 years, transform workforce – report http://b4in.org/bM3z


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Robots will cut 25% of US jobs in 4 years, transform workforce – report http://b4in.org/bM3z

The encroachment of self-help kiosks and grocery store scanners has led doomsayers to suggest automation threatens the workforce of the future. A new report argues it will create new business sectors and new jobs as well.

By studying large companies in various industries, from Delta Airlines Inc. to Whole Foods Market Inc., as well as many startups, analysts have forecast that automation will erase 22.7 million jobs by 2025, or 16 percent of today’s total.

The prediction comes in a report titled “The Future of Jobs, 2025: Working Side-By-Side with Robots,” published by Forrester Research this week. The study’s findings were drawn from government employment data, and interviews with businesses and academics.

Automation in daily life is already prevalent and expanding beyond the grocery store scanner. Robots are now delivering room service to guests in the Aloft hotel in San Francisco, and self-service kiosks filling orders at delis rather than humans.

Lowe’s hardware is testing Oshbot, a robotic sales assistant that can answer questions, and show customers a floorplan of the store or lead them directly to products they seek.

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  1. The purpose these businesses have of hiring robots is in order to reduce costs.  If that's true then they would have little incentive to then go on and hire more people to fill in a new breed of jobs where people work side by side with the robots.  The point of it was to reduce the costs of running the business.  So lets think ... what human job would go side by side with the food delivering 'Bell Boy-Bot" pictured in the OP?   Once the Robot is programmed and running the only thing it needs is occasional maintenance.  How much  do you want to bet that the maintenance job will also be done ... by a robot?  So ... where are the new jobs, exactly?

    I can only think of a few places... Robotics Programming would be one.  Programming in general would be another.  But other than that ... I'm curious ... what are the new jobs?  Any ideas?

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