The Future of Work - Sarah Seeliger


The Future of Work


The three graphs from the article that I chose to look at were the employment rate graph, the future employment graph, and the top ten jobs affected by displacement graph.

The first graph I looked at shows the amount of job employment in high growth hubs will be the most, and that from 2007 to 2017, megacities gained the most amount of jobs. I find this interesting because, on the graph itself, it shows megacities coming in second as far as annual employment. This could be because the annual employment rate was taken out of a percentage of the 2007 employment rate, which would most likely mean that megacities somehow had fewer jobs to start with. Distressed Americana is doing poorly as far as the number of jobs gained as a share of the 2007 workforce, the number of jobs gained from 2007 to 2017, and the annual employment rate. According to the data, Distressed Americana gained -5% of the jobs gained as a share of the 2007 workforce, which is pretty bad. As far as jobs gained from 2007 to 2017, they gained 332, which isn't that bad relatively. Overall, this graph tells me that the areas where people already have the money and resources to have the technology will have more job opportunities, which would lead to more people moving there. It also tells me that people who live in what the graph called Distressed Americana have a disadvantage due to things like lack of money or resources. 

The second graph that I looked at was the graph that showed the future employment groups of different parts of America. The groups in the graph that contained the highest amount of growth were the groups called Urban Core, Periphery, and Niche cities. In the Urban Core group, high growth hubs had the highest amount of future employment for 2017 to 2030. This is similar to the previous graph I talked about, where high growth hubs had the highest amount of job employment. In the Niche Cities group, silver cities had the highest amount of future employment for 2017 to 2030. I think that the results of this graph mainly have to do with access to resources, because the more access you have, the abler you are to adapt to the advancing field of technology. Once you are able to adapt, you're able to make more jobs. 

The final graph I looked at showed the top ten jobs that would be affected by displacement. The job type that's predicted to be the most affected is food preparation. According to the graph, there will be 1,375 jobs potentially displaced, and a 28% displacement rate. The type of job that is said to be the least affected are customer service representatives. The graph claims that there will be 507 jobs potentially displaced and that there will be a 16% displacement rate. 

One of the many things I want to do as a career is music production. I think that since it is a career that has a large portion of it based on technology, it will definitely be affected by automation. However, I don't think that it will be completely taken over by technology. I just think that the more advancements we make, the more things we'll be able to do as far as making music goes. I found a really interesting article written by the Music First Coalition that talked about how social media, music streaming, AR, and AI have a really transformative effect on how musicians share their music and how they interact with the people listening to it. Something the article mentioned that I found interesting is how music streaming is both reviving the music industry and becoming a leader in how people listen to music. The article attributed an increasing demand for customization as the reason for the rise in popularity of music streaming. It said that fans want to be able to do things like make playlists and have the ability to skip songs they don't like. 

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