{"id":50,"date":"2016-01-18T23:06:23","date_gmt":"2016-01-19T07:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/?p=50"},"modified":"2016-01-18T23:06:23","modified_gmt":"2016-01-19T07:06:23","slug":"report-robots-other-advances-will-cost-humans-5-1-million-jobs-by-2020-ars-technica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/2016\/01\/18\/report-robots-other-advances-will-cost-humans-5-1-million-jobs-by-2020-ars-technica\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Robots, other advances will cost humans 5.1 million jobs by 2020 | Ars Technica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/business\/2016\/01\/report-robots-other-advances-will-cost-humans-5-1-million-jobs-by-2020\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/abloglikethis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/foj-study-01-640x586.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ultimately, the WEF offers a massive list of recommendations for major companies to prepare for the 2020 robot-workforce apocalypse. The report&#8217;s\u00a0authors use the strong phrase &#8220;no more excuses&#8221; regarding diversity in hiring, and they offer\u00a0a longer-term recommendation for companies to invest in &#8220;wholescale reskilling&#8221; of their existing workforces. It also encourages businesses to engage with governments and educational providers in updating high school and college systems for a new economy. &#8220;Two legacy issues burdening formal education systems worldwide are the dichotomy between humanities and sciences and applied and pure training, on the one hand, and the prestige premium attached to tertiary-certified forms of education\u2014rather than the actual content of learning\u2014on the other hand. Put bluntly, there is simply no good reason to indefinitely maintain either of these in today\u2019s world,&#8221; the report says.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/business\/2016\/01\/report-robots-other-advances-will-cost-humans-5-1-million-jobs-by-2020\/\">Report: Robots, other advances will cost humans 5.1 million jobs by 2020 | Ars Technica<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Ultimately, the WEF offers a massive list of recommendations for major companies to prepare for the 2020 robot-workforce apocalypse. The report&#8217;s\u00a0authors use the strong phrase &#8220;no more excuses&#8221; regarding diversity in hiring, and they offer\u00a0a longer-term recommendation for companies to invest in &#8220;wholescale reskilling&#8221; of their existing workforces. It also encourages businesses to engage with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-careers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52,"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions\/52"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}