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Month: December 2018
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The World Bank’s Human Capital Index
1 comment on The World Bank’s Human Capital IndexLast week I wrote about a recently published World Bank report, The Changing Nature of Work. The report highlights the increasing importance of investing in human capital by both the public and private sectors. All around the world, the demand for workers who are good at complex problem-solving, interactions with clients and colleagues, and able…
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People have long feared that machines are coming for our jobs. Throughout the Industrial Revolution there were periodic panics about the impact of automation on work, going back to the so-called Luddites, – textile workers who in the 1810s smashed the new machines that were threatening their jobs. Automation anxieties have understandably accelerated in recent years,…
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A recent issue of The Economist included a special report on cryptocurrencies and blockchains. The Economist’s overall conclusion was that “Bitcoin has been a failure as a means of payment, but thrilling for speculators.” Its assessment of blockchain was somewhat more positive. “For blockchains, the jury is still out,… For all the technology’s potential, though,…
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How will labor markets evolve in our 21st century digital economy? What’s the likely future of jobs, given that our increasingly smart machines are now being applied to activities requiring intelligence and cognitive capabilities that not long ago were viewed as the exclusive domain of humans? How will AI, robotics and other advanced technologies transform…
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A few weeks ago, the World Economic Forum (WEF) released The Future of Jobs Report 2018. The report takes an in-depth look at the world of work in what the WEF calls the Fourth Industrial Revolution. The report is based on a survey of over 300 chief human resource officers and top strategy executives from…