{"id":20289,"date":"2018-04-03T20:37:24","date_gmt":"2018-04-03T19:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bcpdt.org.uk\/news\/?p=20289"},"modified":"2023-05-30T23:58:58","modified_gmt":"2023-05-30T22:58:58","slug":"workers-at-risk-as-robots-set-to-replace-66m-jobs-warns-oecd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bcpdt.org.uk\/news\/2018\/04\/03\/workers-at-risk-as-robots-set-to-replace-66m-jobs-warns-oecd\/","title":{"rendered":"Workers at risk as robots set to replace 66m jobs, warns OECD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The west\u2019s leading economic thinktank has warned its members that they are failing to prepare workers for an automation revolution.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><!-- GUARDIAN WATERMARK --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2018\/apr\/03\/robots-could-take-over-more-than-65m-jobs-warns-oecd-report\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/image.guardian.co.uk\/sys-images\/Guardian\/Pix\/pictures\/2010\/03\/01\/poweredbyguardian.png\" alt=\"Powered by Guardian.co.uk\" width=\"140\" height=\"45\" \/>This article titled &#8220;Workers at risk as robots set to replace 66m jobs, warns OECD&#8221; was written by Larry Elliott Economics editor, for The Guardian on Tuesday 3rd April 2018 16.08 UTC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The west\u2019s leading economic thinktank has warned its members that they are failing to prepare workers for an automation revolution that will leave 66 million people at risk of being replaced by machines in the coming years.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oecd-ilibrary.org\/docserver\/2e2f4eea-en.pdf?expires=1522763705&amp;id=id&amp;accname=guest&amp;checksum=E62110DDA78F871ADBFD0F2B340B7FA0\">A new report<\/a> by the Paris-based Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development found that the most vulnerable \u2013 one in seven workers on average across the 32 countries studied \u2013 were less likely to be receiving help than those whose jobs were more secure.<\/p>\n<p>The OECD said 14% of jobs in developed countries were highly automatable, while a further 32% of jobs were likely to experience significant changes to the way they were carried out.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"element element-rich-link element--thumbnail\">\n<p> <span>Related: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2018\/apr\/02\/the-guardian-view-on-automation-put-human-needs-first\">The Guardian view on automation: put human needs first | Editorial<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>The report said some of its member states were far more vulnerable than others to seeing jobs replaced by computers or algorithms: \u201cThere are significant differences across countries: 33% of all jobs in Slovakia are highly automatable, while this is only the case with 6% of the jobs in Norway. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cMore generally, jobs in Anglo-Saxon, Nordic countries and the Netherlands are less automatable than jobs in Eastern European countries, South European countries, Germany, Chile and Japan.\u201d <\/p>\n<figure class=\"element element-embed\" data-alt=\"Guardian business email sign-up\"><figcaption>Sign up to the daily Business Today email or follow Guardian Business on Twitter at @BusinessDesk<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/mar\/24\/millions-uk-workers-risk-replaced-robots-study-warns\">Britain was identified by the OECD as one of the countries that would be least affected by automation<\/a>, but even so the thinktank said one in ten jobs were at high risk and one in four could experience significant change.<\/p>\n<p>Automation was most likely to affect jobs in the manufacturing industry and agriculture, although a number of service sectors, such as postal and courier services, land transport and food services are also highly vulnerable, the thinktank warned.<\/p>\n<p>The new research suggested the job threat posed by automation was less severe than a <a href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/half-of-us-jobs-computerized\/29142\/\">2013 study showing that 47% of US jobs were at high risk<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But the OECD added that even its new estimates pointed to 13m American jobs being lost, warning that the impact on some local economies would be far more damaging than the impact on Detroit of the decline of the car industry.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"element element-rich-link element--thumbnail\">\n<p> <span>Related: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2018\/mar\/17\/robots-robotic-jobs-humans-crummy-jobs-workplaces-machines\">We fear robots at work, but\u00a0robotic jobs for humans are awful too | Gaby Hinsliff<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Low-skilled people and youth were among those most at risk, according to the report, with the jobs at highest risk tending to be in low-skill sectors such as food preparation, cleaning and labouring. Workers in fully automatable jobs were more than three times less likely to have participated in on-the-job training, over a 12-month period, than workers in non-automatable jobs. Those most at risk were also less likely to participate in formal education or distance learning.<\/p>\n<p>The OECD underlined the need to help young people obtain work experience while studying, and highlighted the importance of retraining and social protection for those who were at risk of seeing their job restructured or significantly downsized.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn parallel, the large share of workers whose jobs are likely to change quite significantly as a result of automation calls for countries to strengthen their adult learning policies to prepare their workforce for the changes in job requirements they are likely to face,\u201d the report said. <\/p>\n<p>guardian.co.uk &#169; Guardian News &amp; Media Limited 2010<\/p>\n<p>Published via the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/open-platform\/news-feed-wordpress-plugin\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Guardian plugin page\" rel=\"noopener\">Guardian News Feed<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/the-guardian-news-feed\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Wordress plugin page\" rel=\"noopener\">plugin<\/a> for WordPress.<\/p>\n<p><!-- END GUARDIAN WATERMARK --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One in seven vulnerable employees in developed world least likely to be receiving help<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20290,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10220698900476085_349663338397715":"","twitter_1370559253_1370559253":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[61,24,530,532,533,64,5,531,431,177,63,105],"class_list":["post-20289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-article","tag-business","tag-economics","tag-global-economy","tag-larry-elliott","tag-main-section","tag-news","tag-oecd","tag-robots","tag-technology","tag-the-guardian","tag-uk-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bcpdt.org.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bcpdt.org.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bcpdt.org.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcpdt.org.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcpdt.org.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcpdt.org.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcpdt.org.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bcpdt.org.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcpdt.org.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcpdt.org.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}