{"id":20520,"date":"2019-03-25T06:00:34","date_gmt":"2019-03-25T06:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ceo-na.com\/?p=20520"},"modified":"2019-07-30T20:39:34","modified_gmt":"2019-07-30T20:39:34","slug":"job-opportunities-and-the-digital-transformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/business\/innovation-business\/job-opportunities-and-the-digital-transformation\/","title":{"rendered":"Job opportunities and the digital transformation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An OECD report studies\u00a0how the ongoing digital transformation is affecting people\u2019s lives and jobs.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Less than 5% of occupations are 100% automatable, according to estimates. However,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mckinsey.com\/global-themes\/digital-disruption\/harnessing-automation-for-a-future-that-works\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">30% of the work<\/a>\u00a0involved in most jobs could be carried out by machines.<\/p>\n<p>The labour market effects of the digital transformation are among the most significant for people&#8217;s well-being.<\/p>\n<p>As job skills and labour market composition are set to evolve with the digital disruption,\u00a0the nature of work for many people is set to\u00a0fundamentally change.<\/p>\n<p>Despite fears for the automation, there is little evidence so far that technological change has led to a net loss of jobs, but it has come imperative to\u00a0understand the rapid transformation that is at stake as the emergence of digital technologies has gone in parallel with steadily rising employment rates in most OECD countries.<\/p>\n<p>[ihc-hide-content ihc_mb_type=&#8221;show&#8221; ihc_mb_who=&#8221;3,4,5,6&#8243; ihc_mb_template=&#8221;3&#8243; ]<\/p>\n<p>This is why OECD has published the <a href=\"https:\/\/read.oecd-ilibrary.org\/science-and-technology\/how-s-life-in-the-digital-age_9789264311800-en#page52\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report &#8220;How\u2019s Life in\u00a0the\u00a0Digital Age?\u00a0<\/a><span class=\"web_citeas-subtitle\">Opportunities and\u00a0Risks of\u00a0the\u00a0Digital Transformation for\u00a0People\u2019s Well-being&#8221;, where it studied which countries can most see their industries and jobs take a blow due to automation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>According to these estimates, the risk of job automation\u00a0is relatively low in Norway, New Zealand, Finland and the United States and is highest in Slovakia, Lithuania and Turkey.<\/p>\n<h2>The next frontier<\/h2>\n<p>The digital transformation is often described as the third defining moment in humankind\u2019s history, after the Neolithic Revolution and the Industrial Revolution <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/culture\/2018\/aug\/05\/yuval-noah-harari-free-information-extremely-dangerous-interview-21-lessons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(e.g. Harari, 2018)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In a relatively small number of years, it has changed the way people work, consume, communicate and learn about the world. People now have a digital life and a digital identity, and much more is still to come.<\/p>\n<p>People\u2019s lives are set to change in both good and bad directions and in most of its dimensions. We shall see.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/willrobotstakemyjob.com\/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Will robots take my job?&#8221;<\/a> in now more than a logical question, but <a href=\"https:\/\/willrobotstakemyjob.com\/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">you can ask it here<\/a> thanks to\u00a0Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael A. Osborne, who after publishing a report titled\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk\/publications\/view\/1314\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;The Future of Employment: How susceptible are jobs to computerisation?\u201d<\/a>, extracted the jobs and the probability of automation from the report and have made it easy for you to search.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20521\" style=\"width: 714px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/read.oecd-ilibrary.org\/science-and-technology\/how-s-life-in-the-digital-age_9789264311800-en#page52\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20521\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20521\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ceo-na.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Captura-de-pantalla-2019-02-27-a-las-13.05.00.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"704\" height=\"478\" srcset=\"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Captura-de-pantalla-2019-02-27-a-las-13.05.00-200x136.png 200w, http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Captura-de-pantalla-2019-02-27-a-las-13.05.00-300x204.png 300w, http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Captura-de-pantalla-2019-02-27-a-las-13.05.00-400x272.png 400w, http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Captura-de-pantalla-2019-02-27-a-las-13.05.00-500x339.png 500w, http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Captura-de-pantalla-2019-02-27-a-las-13.05.00-600x407.png 600w, http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Captura-de-pantalla-2019-02-27-a-las-13.05.00-700x475.png 700w, http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Captura-de-pantalla-2019-02-27-a-las-13.05.00.png 704w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 704px) 100vw, 704px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-20521\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a9OECD<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[\/ihc-hide-content]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An OECD report studies\u00a0how the ongoing digital transformation is affecting  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":20522,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[185,99,1385,600,578],"class_list":["post-20520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-innovation-business","tag-automation","tag-ceo","tag-ceo-northam","tag-digital-transformation","tag-jobs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20520"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22549,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20520\/revisions\/22549"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}