According to an OECD paper, 9 of jobs could be automated .2 [616107]

According to an OECD paper, 9% of jobs could be automated .2
JOB CREATION Digitisation is not a choice but a necessity for European businesses and economies as a whole. Its development needs to be
accompanied.
Opportunities of digitisation
• Higher productivity, meaning lower
prices and a higher standard of
living
• Better products and more
personalised services needing
fewer resources
• Less physical work and fewer
dangerous activitiesChallenges of digitisation
• New jobs may not necessarily
be created in the same areas
where jobs are lost
• Workers will need to change
jobs and adapt to them more
frequently
• New forms of atypical work and
self-employment pose challenges
to social security systemsKey Policies for Member States,
accompanied by the European Union
• Active labour market policies, to
ensure an adequate level of social
protection
• Fiscal policies, to ensure that
redistribution smoothens inequality
• Education and training, to ensure
people have the adequate skills to
thrive in the digital economyDigitisation is not a choice but a necessity for European businesses and economies as a whole. Digitisation
brings plenty of opportunities, but also repercussions, and above all change: some jobs will be replaced, new
jobs will be created, and many jobs will be transformed.
According to a Eurobarometer
survey 75% of Europeans
think that digitisation has
a positive effect on the economy.At the same time, 74% also think
that digitisation replaces
more jobs than it creates .1
In 2017, nearly 8.4 million people in the EU were employed as ICT specialists. This represents 3.7% of total employment3. Digitisation
creates many additional, well-paying new jobs for ICT specialists, but even more jobs in other fields of the economy. For instance, the
increasing use of drone aerial cinematography creates new opportunities for hardware suppliers, event organisers or insurance companies.
The potential for additional data workers in Europe: 1.3 million by 2020 (compared to 2015)4.
According to a popular World Economic Forum estimate, 65% of children entering primary school today will end up
working in completely new job types that don’t yet exist.5
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NEED FOR TRAININGThe nature of some jobs
will change……some roles will go,
others will be created……and new kinds of work may
earn compensation.
Predictive policing is already changing
the nature of work in security services,
from preventing domestic violence to
detecting fraud and identifying hotspots
for crime.6
Shipping companies are increasingly
automating long-distance transport of
goods and shifting their workforce to
managing pickup and delivering goods
direct to the customer, with the help of
artificial intelligence.7
While sports referees could in theory
be automated,8 improved real-time
data feedback to support a human
referee is now becoming possible.Automated medical diagnosticians
are potentially more effective in
checking for tumours than their human
counterparts.9 This could free time for
doctors to carry out other tasks. A new
type of medical worker, specialised
in managing technologies, would be
created.10
Algorithmic search engines have already
made many junior legal positions
obsolete by automating document
review for complex litigation.11 As the value and application of
personal data continues to expand,
new “personal data marketplaces”
are offering direct financial
compensation to individuals willing
to give advertisers and research
institutions access to their data.12
New initiatives help individuals become
digital social entrepreneurs , sharing
time and talent flexibly in new networks.13
Online platforms have enabled
experiments in local currency , which
offer citizens a range of compensation
for publicly useful tasks, useable locally
in the form of discounted or free access
to traditionally paid services.
1 Special Eurobarometer 460, ‘Attitudes towards the impact of digitisation and automation on daily life’, 2017
2 Arntz, Gregory and Zierahn (2016), “The Risk of Automation for Jobs in OECD Countries: A Comparative Analysis”, OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Papers,
No. 189, Paris. http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/5jlz9h56dvq7-en
3 Eurostat 2017
4 IDC: European data market, http://www.datalandscape.eu/study-reports
5 “The future of jobs and skills” (World Economic Forum), http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_FOJ_Executive_Summary_Jobs.pdf
6 Macauley, T. “How big data is changing the nature of policing from reactive to proactive,” ComputerWorldUK (February 23, 2017). Accessed online March 2017
http://www.computerworlduk.com/data/how-big-data-is-moving-policing-from-reactive-proactive-approach-3655033/ .
7 Executive Office of the President of the United States (December 16, 2016), Artificial Intelligence, Automation, and the Economy. Accessed online March 2017
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/whitehouse.gov/files/documents/Artificial-Intelligence-Automation-Economy.PDF
8 Frey and Osborne (2013), The future of work: how susceptible are jobs to computerisation . Accessed online March 2017
http://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/downloads/academic/The_Future_of_Employment.pdf
9 Conger, K. “Computers trounce pathologists in predicting cancer type, severity,” Stanford Medicine News Center (August 16, 2016). Accessed online April 2017
https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2016/08/computers-trounce-pathologists-in-predicting-lung-cancer-severity.html
10 Executive Office of the President of the United States (December 16, 2016), Artificial Intelligence, Automation, and the Economy. Accessed online March 2017
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/whitehouse.gov/files/documents/Artificial-Intelligence-Automation-Economy.PDF
11 National Law Journal, “Number of Students Enrolling in Law School Basically Flat” (Dec. 2016). Accessed online March 2017
http://www.nationallawjournal.com/id=1202774844249/Number-of-Students-Enrolling-in-Law-School-Basically-Flat?slreturn=20170327025644
12 Nelson, P. “Three ways you can sell your own personal data,” Networkworld.com (November 2, 2015).
13 Presentation of Dr. Maurizio Teli (PIE News), DG-Connect Workshop, February 27, 2017.
14 http://ec.europa.eu/epsc/publications/strategic-notes/future-work_en
15 Eurostat, 2017
16 Eurostat, 2016Training in digital skills is important for all and not only for the new generation. People in their 30s today will still work in 2040 and
use e-services well into the 2060s. However, training currently tends to benefit those who need it the least and is dependent
on the type of contract held: almost one in two employees on permanent contracts receive training compared to one in three with
fixed contracts and one in five who are self-employed14. Well-educated workers are much more likely to participate in job-related
training than low-educated workers.
43% of Europeans
do not have
basic digital skills48% of companies recruiting
ICT specialists have
problems finding candidates
with the required skills.16