Talent development for the future of work – The Financial Express
The key question which has been top of the mind for most is whether their current jobs will vanish and what are the new jobs that would get created. Depending upon the type of automation that is being planned and the tools that are emerging, it would be difficult to tell what new jobs will get created, however one thing that is certain is that whatever may be the roles, new skills would be required to adapt and be successful.
This is further substantiated by McKinsey report which states that less than 5% of the current jobs would be automated. The biggest hurdle for full automation of a role is that most jobs are varied and require adaptation to situations which cannot easily be simulated or predicted for robots to handle. Therefore while some of the standardised roles in retail stores or shopfloors which operate within predefined boundaries of tasks to be performed may be replaced by robots, there will be new digital roles that would get created and current roles are likely to be centered around technology.