• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer

IIC Australian Chapter

Shaping the policy agenda: Telecommunications, Media, Technology

INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF COMMUNICATIONS | AUSTRALIAN CHAPTER

FACILITATING THE POLICY AGENDA: TELECOMMUNICATIONS  |  MEDIA  |  TECHNOLOGY

  • Home
  • About
    • IICA Executive Committee
  • Join
  • Events
    • Upcoming Events
    • Past Events
  • News
  • Contact
You are here: Home / News / Automation accelerated by pandemic, says WEF report

Automation accelerated by pandemic, says WEF report

October 21, 2020

Companies step up plans for digitisation, with jobs expected to be lost

Reuters reports on a survey by the World Economic Forum which suggests that companies will accelerate the replacement of humans ‘with robots’ as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. It sees job creation slowing and job destruction accelerating as companies around the world use technology rather than people for data entry, accounting and administration duties. Meanwhile, the report describes tasks such as managing, advising, decision-making, reasoning, communicating and interacting as ones in which humans are set to retain their comparative advantage. The survey suggested that technology integration would result in 43 per cent of businesses reducing and 34 per cent increasing their workforce over the next five years.

Read more here.

Primary Sidebar

Latest News

Round-up of the latest industry news – April 2022

May 19, 2022

Global Media & Internet Concentration Project – Website launch and Summer 2022 conference

May 19, 2022

Future Leaders Competiton 2022

May 19, 2022

Sign up for our newsletter & events updates:

Footer

  • twitter
  • linkedin
  • youtube
  • facebook

Copyright © 2022 · INTERNATIONAL INSTITUE OF COMMUNICATIONS AUSTRALIAN CHAPTER