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Four Ways Jobs Will Respond to Automation
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Four Ways Jobs Will Respond to Automation

by Scott Latham, Beth Humberd
October 2018
Intermediate to advanced
13 pages
12m
English
MIT Sloan Management Review

Overview


The robots are coming! But counter to popular belief, it’s not just low-paying jobs that are at risk of automation. According to research by Scott Latham and Beth Humberd, predicting which jobs are vulnerable requires analyzing the type of value job holders deliver and the skills they use to deliver it. Workers must understand four paths of job evolution — and factors behind each path — if they hope to adapt.

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