As within the next five years in 2025, majority of the global companies are all predicted for dividing the work equally amongst Humans as well as Machines. As per latest report sourced from the ‘World Economic Forum’s Future of Jobs’, the aftermath of the COVID-19 Pandemic has enhanced the need of the hour for making rapid changes amongst workforce than the expectations and therefore majority of global companies are all undergoing equality amongst the division of work between humans and Machines within next five years by 2025.
It is estimated that the Robots as well as the automation will be instrumental in displacing 87 million jobs within the forthcoming five-year time-period, while it is also forecasted to create 97 million newer employment prospects globally. The aftermath of the ongoing Pandemic can be understood by the fact that it has already lurched in global economy to the doors of its worst ever recession time frame since the great depression.
Taking a huge hit regarding the deadliest COVID-19 Pandemic virus was the US, the global superpower as well as biggest economy, taking almost a decade long following the financial crisis for creation of in excess of 23 million latest jobs, while as per the data from Labour Department, the COVID-19 pandemic took almost just a month’s time frame for destruction of as many jobs under various sectors.
The Managing Director of the WEF (World Economic Forum) Saadia Zahidi stated further that “The advent of COVID-19 Pandemic has enhanced arrival of the future of the work, however, still announcing a warning that “the window of prospects regarding proactive management of this shift is ceasing on rapidly.”
Ms. Zahidi was quick to announce that “within the near future beckoning us, we are going to witness most competitive phase of businesses wherein they remain heavily invested within human capital-the skills as well as close competencies of their workforce.”
The WEF further was quick to their heels for forecasting that within the absence of proactive procedures from the Governments as well as the private sectors, there will arise huge inequality that is all likely to aggravate via the twin influence of technology and the pandemic-induced recession.
As per the report compiled “The conditions are such grave that half of the leading companies are in expectation of speeding up of the automation for few of the roles within the organizations, and this survey is backed upon findings taken from senior leaders from nearly 300 organizations that approximately in tandem employ 8 Million Workforce.”
The survey was quick to input that there will be an abrupt halt for the demand backed for varied roles within these few sectors who will bore the maximum brunt. They are: –
- Data Entry Job role.
- Accounting as well as
- Administrative Support
According to the survey, it will however be a fruitful time period for demand amongst the workforce employed in following sectors: –
- Surge in demand for workers employed within sustainable or green economy jobs.
- Workforce who are related to varied roles within Data as well as Artificial Intelligence Economy.
- Within the Engineering.
- Cloud Computing as well as
- Within Product Development
Jeff Maggioncalda, chief executive of Coursera, one of the global biggest online learning platforms that has been monitoring re-skilling demand among its students, stated that “the COVID-19 Pandemic has excessively impacted millions of lower skilled workforces.”
The study also revealed that nearly or in excess of 48 percent of firms surveyed within UAE were in pursuit of looking forward to have a rapid surge for the automation, which was slightly below the global average.
A vast majority of organizations, around 84 percent precisely, stated that they are in pursuit for setting up a rapid digitalization working process, that also includes better expansion of remote working.
The activities wherein the humans are all in pursuit to retain best competitive benefits include the areas of Managing, Decision-making, reasoning, communication as well as the way of interaction.
The WEF’s research also proved that a significant surging number of individuals are in pursuit of choosing entirely newer occupations and thereby making swift career transformations. The survey as well predicted that almost in excess of three-quarters of business leaders are expecting negative influence regard that of the worker’s productivity standards, and further predicting that there are few who are still stressed out regard pandemic-induced shift for remote working.”
According in imitation of LinkedIn information gathered upon the past 5 years, incompletely regarding occupation shifts among records and artificial talent are beyond exclusive fields. That figure is a good deal higher because of income roles (75 percent), content creation and production positions, such namely social media managers then content writers (72 percent) and engineering roles (67 percent).
Karin Kimbrough, tip economist at LinkedIn, referred to so directing group of workers funding towards knowledge to that amount have a larger impact on commencement above longer time period career paths “can accomplish a real difference in addressing the unparalleled tiers on unemployment as we’re for as much globally.”
