"According to the World Economic Forum Jobs Report 2020, “automation, in tandem with the COVID-19 recession, is creating a ‘double-disruption’ scenario for workers. Technological adoption by companies will transform tasks, jobs and skills by 2025. Time spent on current tasks at work by humans and machines will become equal. The report also estimate that 97 million new roles may emerge as the new division of labour between humans, machines and algorithms emerges."
In this new EBRD podcast, participants discuss the emerging trend of automation and its impact on the future of work, pushed by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Podcast guests:
Jason Furman, the Aetna Professor of the Practice of Economic Policy jointly at Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) and the Department of Economics at Harvard University. He is also a nonresident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics,
Beata Javorcik, EBRD Chief Economist and Professor of Economics, University of Oxford.
Podcast is prepared by the EBRD in English language. Click here to listen to the podcast.
Source: EBRD
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