The Future of Work
I found this article to be very interesting and informative. It gives insight into the current United States labour market. There is a discussion around how far we have come in terms of technology and how such advancements will carry us into the future. The author predicts that within the next few years more and more jobs will be created and more and more will be phased out. The new advancements and waves of technology developing within our societies is going to dramatically accelerate the pace of change. As machines integrated into our workforce there may be less need for employees and lower rates of employment. The author comes to the conclusion that while there are many possibilities to as of where technology will take us in the upcoming years, with the scenarios ran and the data collected, they predict that there will in fact be positive job growth through 2030.
The first graph I will be looking at is ‘exhibit 4: the urban core, urban periphery, and niche cities are positioned to have the strongest future employment growth.’ The reason I chose to look at this one first was because of the claim attached. They say that niche cities will have the most growth and while that is true there is one point on the graph, being the small power houses, where there net job growth from 2017-2030 is not passing the 2007-2017. Even outside of Niche cities the net job growth from 2017-2030 is always greater than the job growth from 2007-2017. So that one point confuses me a bit and I am curious as to why there was not as much growth as some other places had. Cities like Austin (which I believe would fit into the niche city category or maybe college town) have such diverse economies and have a major focus on technology that job opportunities are rapidly increasing that they show us so much about our future of work in an age of automation.
The second graph I am looking at is ‘interactive: Displacement and net job growth could be highly uneven across the United States.’ There are two modes in which you can view the chart. One mode shows the percentage of jobs displaced and the other shows jobs created. Looking at this graph I was not surprised to see that Texas had very little job displacement because of our oil industry. When looking at Texas in terms of jobs created it has grown a lot. This shows how strong our economy is because we have very little job loss and the number of new jobs is continuously growing.
The last graph I looked at was ‘Exhibit 5: some of the jobs with the highest displacement potentiation have skewed demographic concentrations. Top 10 jobs affected by displacement.’ One of the careers that has a pretty high risk for displacement is stock clerks and order fillers with a 46% displacement rate. This seems pretty scary but the idea of this job no longer being as needed makes so much sense because so few businesses order merchandise by forms anymore it's all automated and can easily be done online.
think technology as a whole is a great thing when taken advantage of in the right ways. We have the potential to learn so much and get more done in a timely manner. However, I find it so scary to think of the possibility of my future job to be no longer needed. I hope that in the future we can find a good mix of technology in the workforce and how we can better protect employees.
The first graph I will be looking at is ‘exhibit 4: the urban core, urban periphery, and niche cities are positioned to have the strongest future employment growth.’ The reason I chose to look at this one first was because of the claim attached. They say that niche cities will have the most growth and while that is true there is one point on the graph, being the small power houses, where there net job growth from 2017-2030 is not passing the 2007-2017. Even outside of Niche cities the net job growth from 2017-2030 is always greater than the job growth from 2007-2017. So that one point confuses me a bit and I am curious as to why there was not as much growth as some other places had. Cities like Austin (which I believe would fit into the niche city category or maybe college town) have such diverse economies and have a major focus on technology that job opportunities are rapidly increasing that they show us so much about our future of work in an age of automation.
The second graph I am looking at is ‘interactive: Displacement and net job growth could be highly uneven across the United States.’ There are two modes in which you can view the chart. One mode shows the percentage of jobs displaced and the other shows jobs created. Looking at this graph I was not surprised to see that Texas had very little job displacement because of our oil industry. When looking at Texas in terms of jobs created it has grown a lot. This shows how strong our economy is because we have very little job loss and the number of new jobs is continuously growing.
The last graph I looked at was ‘Exhibit 5: some of the jobs with the highest displacement potentiation have skewed demographic concentrations. Top 10 jobs affected by displacement.’ One of the careers that has a pretty high risk for displacement is stock clerks and order fillers with a 46% displacement rate. This seems pretty scary but the idea of this job no longer being as needed makes so much sense because so few businesses order merchandise by forms anymore it's all automated and can easily be done online.
think technology as a whole is a great thing when taken advantage of in the right ways. We have the potential to learn so much and get more done in a timely manner. However, I find it so scary to think of the possibility of my future job to be no longer needed. I hope that in the future we can find a good mix of technology in the workforce and how we can better protect employees.
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