Robot revolution

More than half of all workplace tasks will be carried out by machines
by 2025, predicts the World Economic Forum in a new report 

PROJECTED RATIO CHANGE OF HUMAN-TO-MACHINE WORKING HOURS (%)
  
                                       2018                 2022
                                   Human    Machine    Human    Machine
Reasoning/decision-making                     19                  28 
Developing/managing/advising                  19                  29
Communicating/interacting                     23                  31
Administration                                28                  44
Physical/manual work                          31                  44
Identifying/evaluating information            29                  46
Complex technical activities                  34                  46
Looking for/receiving information             36                  55
Information/data processing                   47                  62


By 2022, roughly 75m jobs worldwide could be lost, but that could be more than offset by creation of 133m new jobs adapted to increased machine labour

EXPECTED AVERAGE RETRAINING NEEDS ACROSS COMPANIES
(by share of employees, 2018-2022))

46% None 
13% 1 month
12% 1-3 months
10% 3-6 months 
9%  6-12 months
10% Over 1 year


Sources:WorldEconomicForum,AP Picture:ForbiddenPlanetposter(publicdomain)   ©GRAPHICNEWS