Are you worried about those clever little robots taking over your job?
Do you envisage a workplace of little people puttering around the office fixing and fiddling with machinery while at home they’re cleaning the house, minding the pets and picking up the laundry?
Well stop worrying, the future is not quite so absolute and robots will most likely create as many jobs as they replace.
Somebody has to fix them when the wires get crossed!
Yes, the future is not as bad as the pessimists would have us believe and maybe learning how to value add to the creation and inclusion of robots is where the jobs of the future will have a future.
Chris Richardson, partner at Deloitte and regular contributor to the commentary on economics, budgets et al had some sensible and sobering things to say about the “future of work” in his address to the National Press Club in Canberra with an assurance that 45% of us have been with our current employer for more than five years.
So get with the program. Embrace the ‘little people’ and be excited when they learn to do the washing, ironing and cleaning, cook the dinner and deal with the kids.
We embrace so many technologies without too much questioning and have lived a better life because of them.
Richardson asserts human skills are hugely under supplied and the boring repetitive work is for the robots.
Hope they hurry up with one to do the mundane!
