The annual 'future of jobs report', published by the World Economic Forum at the beginning of the year, provides good updates on how various economic, geopolitical and social factors, affect the nature of work and the global labour market.
The survey undertakes to extrapolate the data across five years - 2025 to 2030.
Despite the rise in digitisation, many jobs with the highest growth, require manual labour. These include farmworkers, delivery drivers (what has happened to driverless cars??), construction workers, salespersons, and food processing workers. As for many other predictions, care roles and education (both tertiary and secondary) will grow along with technology-related jobs.
The major decline is in clerical and secretarial roles.
Tellingly, workers can expect to have 40% of their existing skills sets to be changed, with the need to upskill in digital/technology related job tasks.
Therefore, no real surprises, but the need to be cognisant of the need to ensure humans maintain and enhance their contributions through creative thinking, resilience, flexibility and agility and continued curiosity across their life span.
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