Automatisering og fremtidens arbejdsmarked

The robot technology has, developed very fast in the last 30 years. The efficiency has been the cost, of many industrial workers jobs. And now people are discussing if efficiency is more important than manpower. The problem as I see it is, that employers in the industry, that is in this particular risk of firing a big amount of their employees. Because the robotic working capacity, is much more efficient and cheaper, as for simple work that is.

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (EOCD) expressed that 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. Which means that in Denmark for instance, about 389.060 people out of 2.779.000, could lose their job to automation. The EOCD also added that automation could, ruin local economies in the US, were a study from 2013 showed that 47% was at high risk (of losing their job I assume). And that automation was most likely to affect jobs in the manufacturing industry and agriculture. This also means that the automation could hit a certain group of people with a lower form of education. Here there is talked about the people who also was mentioned in the source of information, so the “low skilled” and the youth (young people). This phenomenon could mean that sort of “battle” for your life in the education system could be more realistic than we may realize. A haunting fair that could especially pressure a whole new generation and effect the education system. The education for a “simple” job could in the future have higher standards then we can imagine. But let us not forget the todays “lower skilled” workers we have today. The people who make our ordinary day add up. I am talking about the person such as the postman, and the cashier sitting behind the desk, at your local supermarket. But also, the people we don’t get see like a factory worker, standing at the assembly line, putting a lid on your toothpaste. But luckily some of these workers (a storage worker for instance), they can get promoted (From storage worker to storage organizer or storage manager for instance). But for most workers this merciful fate, in perspective to those who just lose their job over time.