85 million jobs within 5 years or by machines
World Economic Forum report says 97 million new jobs are vacant
Science and Technology Daily, Beijing, October 22 (Reporter Liu Xia) According to a report on the World Economic Forum (WEF) website on the 21st, the agency recently released a report entitled "Resetting the Agenda for Future Work: Subversion and Update in the Post-epidemic World". , The new crown pneumonia epidemic is accelerating the process of automation. By 2025, the "robot revolution" will replace 85 million human jobs with machines, and routine or manual labor in management and data processing is most vulnerable to threats.
Of course, new technologies will also create 97 million jobs.
The report pointed out that the new crown pneumonia epidemic has accelerated the adoption of new technologies by enterprises and consumers, and consumers' demand for cloud computing and e-commerce services is increasing day by day. The living space of companies that cannot provide services to their customers online has also been squeezed.
More than two-fifths of the surveyed companies said they plan to reduce manpower through technology integration, with administrative assistants and clerks the most affected.
The new report also pointed out that the development of automation may also create 97 million new jobs in the fields of nursing, big data, artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and green economy. Consultation, decision-making, reasoning, communication, interaction, and content production are also relevant. There will be more positions where human skills are needed.
Moreover, in the future, more and more talents from different backgrounds will work together to "show the continuing importance of human interaction in the new economy."
The report pointed out that at present, about two-thirds of the work is done by humans, and the remaining one-third is handled by machines, but by 2025, the proportion of work done by machines will rise to one-half.
Therefore, many workers may need to receive new skills training and enter new positions to cope with this change.
The report shows that some workers whose jobs are easily replaced by machines may have to enter new career fields. 94% of the surveyed companies hope that their employees will master new job skills, which is a significant increase from 65% in 2018.
The analysis conducted by the LinkedIn data science team for WEF shows that in the past five years, many professionals entering the new economy have come from completely different professions.
For example, half of the people who switch to data science and artificial intelligence are from unrelated industries.
The report believes that critical thinking, analysis and problem-solving are still top-level skills that world-renowned companies consider to be increasingly important in the next five years. In addition, stress resistance, resilience and flexibility are also very important.
The report suggests that the company should increase its efforts to retrain existing employees. The report predicts that in an increasingly automated world, half of workers will need to learn new skills in order to complete their work effectively.