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08/06/2017 / By Rhonda Johansson

Rise of the robots: Bricklaying human labor nearly obsolete by 2020

An estimated 500,000 construction jobs will be replaced by robots by 2020, concludes a troubling analysis published by the World Economic Forum. The report claims that out of the 5.1 million jobs expected to be lost due to automation, 10 percent will be focused in the construction industry. Experts say that this may be because […]

07/06/2017 / By Rhonda Johansson

Small towns are collapsing as retail jobs evaporate leaving thousands of workers with an uncertain future

HEADLINE: Murder. Jobs are being killed left and right — their lifeless bodies thrown rather haphazardly on the streets as onlookers watch meekly by the sidelines. Police suspect e-commerce stores and its accomplice, automation. Despite the outrage felt by the victims and their families, authorities say they are powerless to stop such a deadly (and […]

04/13/2017 / By Rhonda Johansson

Just ONE robot eliminates SIX jobs, analysis finds… human labor rapidly becoming obsolete

Automation has led to the loss of 670,000 manufacturing jobs between 1990 and 2007, confirms a new report published in the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). Authors of the study caution the U.S. local labor markets that this number is expected to rise as more industries transition to a more automated environment. This coincides […]

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