Man versus machine! Some criticize – and – technology adoption in the labor market. They say mechanical arms, drones, intelligent machines and even cognitive steal more and more jobs of millions of human beings all over the planet. Other bet on the contrary; integration of human and machine will lead to a new industrial revolution. Now what?! …
The discussion is not new. For over 200 years, when the labor-intensive began to be replaced by machines, technology was seen by some as a great evil! Worse, some studies even lead to understand that this is the reality: the European Union, a research institute said that more than half of the vacancies is likely to disappear in the coming decades. Another survey from the University of Oxford is the same warning to the United States
On the other side -. In which, particularly, we believe more – quite complex and interesting research reveals that in recent years, technology helped create more jobs than destroy. A study together at the University of Uppsala, Sweden, and the London School of Economics, in Inglarerra, which analyzed the labor market in 17 countries between 1993 and 2007, argues that technology has played an essential role in productivity and economic growth . Even newer and even awarded a Deloitte economists report also states that in the last 140 years – at least in the UK – the technology has helped to create more jobs; not vice versa.
In some sectors, the study recognizes that technology has eliminated jobs. But will these jobs are worth being preserved? According to the report, the technology directly replaces only the hand of heavy work. And that is synonymous with increased productivity, while diminishing vacancies in a certain position. In the UK, the first sector to feel the effect of this replacement was agriculture
On the other hand, the technology raises the creation of jobs with more geared to knowledge activities.; intellectual professional capacity. In some sectors, including medicine and education, technology has increased productivity and employment, ensure the report
More than that, the digital world has enabled the coexistence of much smaller companies -. The so Popular start ups – part of the world economic ecosystem. This reality will totally against the idea of eliminating jobs.
The conclusion of the report’s authors is that the labor market will continue to find changes and will see more jobs being extinguished, but also new are created. The increasingly autonomous and intelligent machines can even take repetitive and laborious tasks, but are not close to eliminating the need for human labor. And if it a message to live in such a world, watch.
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