Preparing Workers for Future Jobs
September 28, 2018
“Society must begin to be much more serious about understanding the potential for information technology and robotics to cause disruptive changes to the labor market over the next few decades,” an analyst recently noted in Issues, adding that the “scale and speed of this potential change are too great to be able to depend on ordinary economic adjustment to smooth out disruptions in the labor market.” Along this line, the New York Times just examined challenges that people will face in finding good jobs in the coming technology-enriched workplace as well as some new public-private partnerships aimed at preparing people for the future of work.