its Future of Jobs report, highlighting the extent to which the coronavirus will accelerate automation efforts and reshape the world economy.For the report, the WEF fielded 291 unique responses from business executives at global companies with 100+ employees, collectively representing more than 7.7 million employees worldwide. By 2025, 85 million global jobs will disappear as a consequence of automation. Employers expect that "increasingly redundant roles" which now make up 15.
Automation will also help create new jobs—just not for the same workers. The WEF predicts that between now and 2025, 97 million new roles will emerge that are better suited for a more heavily automated economy. WEF predicts there will be increased demand for roles like data scientists, AI and machine learning specialists, and process automation specialists; it projects a decline in demand for jobs such as data entry clerks, construction laborers, and postal service clerks.
In the near term, we believe the shift to remote work will be an even bigger driver of job displacement than automation. When asked how they planned to adapt their business in response to the pandemic, 83% of the employers surveyed by WEC said they plan to provide more opportunities to work remotely, relative to only 50% who said they plan to accelerate automation.
The shift to remote work could displace existing workers, as companies look for ways to reduce costs by hiring workers in regions where labor costs are lower. For instance, according to a July 2020 from The Information, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi planned to shift the company's engineering teams to India to reduce costs amid the pandemic.
Uber laid off over 6,700 employees in May, and as recently as October it announced that it would begin
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