Wednesday, November 23, 2016

Fear of technology? Touches all, less young people – ECO Economy Online

A study found that the young professionals of the financial area does not fear the social transformations triggered by technology in the short-term. But many adults fear they will be marginalized.

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the greater the age, the greater the concern. And at a time when many fear that robots will replace human labor, a study shows that the youth is not so pessimistic as to the future employability, goes to Bloomberg.

based on a sample of 3,200 professionals in north american area and financial recruiting firm Options Group found that 12% of the participants between 46 and 50 years of age believe that will be marginalized by the changes triggered by technology over the next five years. From that age, the percentage increases to 15%.

however, according to Bloomberg, while among participants with more than 26 years, a share of 8% fear losing the livelihood in the next five years, virtually no respondents below 26 years agreed with this idea. Among this age group, the most common option indicated a expectation of better work-life balance in the near future.

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Still, the survey, carried out between 8 September and 10 October, it was concluded that not all technology is bad: 36% of the participants believe that they will improve the professional performance and 12% expected to create new jobs that do not yet exist.

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