Current news regularly suggests that roughly half of Australian jobs will be potentially
affected by automation and technology change in the near future.
Even the interviewing process, including phone screening and automated video interviewing of applications, has been
affected by automation and AI.
Identify income, education and demographic characteristics of Canadian occupations based on their risk of being
affected by automation, and
Overall we found that nearly 42 percent of the Canadian labour force is at a high risk of being
affected by automation in the next decade or two.
A recent study by the Brookfield Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship found that up to 42 % of the Canadian labour force is at high risk of being
affected by automation in the next 10 - 20 years.
Not exact matches
Automation Immediate results 24 - hours - a-day trading Higher capacity Don't make mistakes Not
affected by emotion No fees on your profits
Profit squeeze: Mid-size law firms will continue to be
affected by a «profit squeeze» resulting from (a) increased overhead due to higher associate and staff salaries and benefits; (b) higher
automation costs, professional liability insurance and marketing expenses; (c) partners» unwillingness / inability to increase hourly fee rates for «commodity» type work to off - set higher overhead; (d) enhanced client scrutiny of hourly rates, hours to produce work and lawyer and paralegal staffing of work assignments; (e) pressure
by corporate counsel for law firms to absorb more of the «soft costs;» (f) slower paying clients, that
affect cash flow and hence the availability of distributable dollars for partners; and (g) a great many mid-size law firms are burdened with higher debt.
A report
by consultancy firm McKinsey (Four fundamentals of workplace
automation, 2015) estimated that knowledge
automation, made possible
by computing advances such as machine learning and «natural» user interfaces, will
affect 230 + million workers — or 9 % of the global workforce.