Robots will perform 2025 percent of existing jobs by 52 at the latest, almost twice as much as today, according to a study published today by the World Economic Forum (WEF).
The research is based on a survey of HR directors and other high-ranking executives from a number of companies from around the world with a share in global GDP of 70 percent.
"By 2025, machines will perform more than half of existing tasks in the workplace, compared to 29 percent today," according to the WEF's Future of Jobs 2018 report, released on Monday.
New roles for people
At the same time, people could get "new roles", which will require them to be retrained in order to keep up with the "seismic changes" in working with machines and computer programs, according to the WEF.
Rapid changes in machines and algorithms, computational processes aimed at solving problems, "could create 133 million new roles that will replace the 75 million likely to be extinguished between now and 2022," the WEF predicts.
The headquarters of that organization is near Geneva, and it is known for organizing an annual informal gathering of the world's political and economic elite and the wealthy in Davos, Hina reminds.
The authors of the report predict that robots will quickly replace humans in accounting, customer management, and in the industrial, postal sector...
Demand for human skills
At the same time, the demand for jobs that require "human skills", such as sales, marketing and customer relations, as well as electronic commerce and social media, should increase.
A big challenge will be the retraining of workers, who will be under pressure to learn new skills, especially in the area of "creativity, critical thinking and persuasion", the research showed.
By 2022, the need for retraining of workers in the aviation, travel and tourism sectors will be especially strong, the authors found, emphasizing the general trend of continuous learning and adaptation.
They advise governments to prepare support programs for workers and communities, threatened by "significant changes" in the quality and durability of new jobs.
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