Sentences with phrase «automation took over jobs»

Automation took over jobs during the previous Industrial Revolution, but many of the social program advances that helped ease the pain — unemployment insurance, worker's compensation, student loans and so on — didn't come into existence until much later.

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Automation is the all - purpose bogeyman of today's workforce: millions of jobs could be taken over by machines in the next few years, experts say, and the big question is what to do about all the humans left behind.

While job losses are perceived as inevitable — Gartner recently predicted robots would take over a third of all jobs by 2025 — the need for more automation is also expected to create new jobs, other economists say.

While these may seem to be competing with law firms, it is worth pointing out that this type of automation takes over certain tasks, not jobs.

For example, a welder whose job at an automotive plant that was taken over by automation may be able to transition into ship building, heavy equipment repair, automotive customization and fabrication, or even working in such diverse industries as oil and gas.