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Last week, job search website Adzuna estimated that around one-third Australian jobs could be lost to automation by 2030, with lower-skilled and manual labour jobs most at risk.
Yesterday, Zero Hedge reported on a fascinating keynote address by the Managing Director of Bain & Company’s Macro Trends Group, Karen Harris, entitled: “Labor 2030: The Collision of Demographics, Automation, and Inequality”, which projected massive disruption to America’s employment market from automation, as well as worsening inequality:
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About the author
Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness.
Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.