What happens if you google ”robots and jobs”? 14 headers from newspapers and magazines around the world within the last year give you an idea.

1. The (gloomy)
picture of
robots and
jobs!

2. What happens if you
google ”robots and
jobs”?
14 headers from newspapers and magazines
around the world within the last year.

3. Stefan
Lindegaard
reporting on
…how robots,
machines and
artificial
intelligence
change how we
live and work.
CEO / Thought Leader
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4. https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/10/the-robot-
paradox/505973/
Things change slowly. Then fast. Very fast.

5. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jan/11/robots-jobs-
employees-artificial-intelligence
80% believe their jobs will be unaffected. Think again.

6. https://techcrunch.com/2016/05/13/robots-wont-just-take-jobs-theyll-
create-them/
…not everyone will need to be an
engineer to find jobs created by robots.

7. https://www.fastcompany.com/3067279/robot-revolution/you-didnt-see-this-coming-10-jobs-that-will-be-
replaced-by-robots?utm_source=articleRail&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=recirculation
…robotic bricklayers will soon be introduced to
construction sites that enable the machines to
replace two to three human workers each.

8. http://www.geek.com/tech/middle-class-workers-
are-losing-their-jobs-to-robots-1654097/
….but
algorithms and
technology
advance to a
point that there
is no need for
the average,
middle class
worker.

9. https://www.ft.com/content/cb4c93c4-0566-11e6-a70d-4e39ac32c284
“The fact of the matter is automation is
coming,” he says. “The question is how fast
is it coming.”

10. https://singularityhub.com/2017/02/10/how-robots-helped-create-100000-
jobs-at-amazon/
Though it may not last forever, right now
Amazon’s robot-to-human balance is
clearly in employees’ favor. Automation can
take jobs away, but sometimes it can
create them too.

11. http://www.cnbc.com/2016/11/04/elon-musk-robots-will-take-your-jobs-
government-will-have-to-pay-your-wage.html
"There is a pretty good chance we end up with
a universal basic income, or something like
that, due to automation," says Musk.

12. https://www.technologyreview.com/s/603370/robots-will-devour-jobs-
more-slowly-than-you-think/
…divides work by activities rather than job
roles, because it’s tasks that can be
automated, not whole positions.

13. http://fortune.com/2017/03/31/jeff-
immelt-robots-jobs-ge/
"This notion of
the war of the
robots
happening in
the short term,
that's more of
a Silicon
Valley vision
than the real
world,"

14. http://www.zdnet.com/article/robots-will-replace-250000-government-
jobs-and-thats-just-the-beginning/
"In primary care, there are 10 receptionists
for every 14 clinicians, and almost one per
GP… Thirty-seven per cent of civil servants
fill defined administrative roles,"

15. https://www.siliconrepublic.com/jobs/robots-jobs-future
Meanwhile, for each new robot added per
1000 workers, wages in the surrounding area
would fall between 0.25 and 0.5pc.

16. http://www.zdnet.com/article/robots-will-replace-250000-government-
jobs-and-thats-just-the-beginning/
”Only companies that embrace
robotics will survive”
…but…
”Robots will become so intelligent
that no job will be safe.”

17. http://pwc.blogs.com/press_room/2017/03/up-to-30-of-existing-uk-jobs-could-be-
impacted-by-automation-by-early-2030s-but-this-should-be-offse.html
A report by PwC that
everyone is quoting.

18. Stefan
Lindegaard
Talks, sessions
and advice on:
Corporate
transformation,
digitalization
and innovation
management.
CEO / Thought Leader
stefanlindegaard@me.com
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