{"id":118191,"date":"2021-01-08T20:22:16","date_gmt":"2021-01-09T04:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/mit-report-robots-arent-the-biggest-threat-to-the-future-of-work-policy-is"},"modified":"2021-01-08T20:22:16","modified_gmt":"2021-01-09T04:22:16","slug":"mit-report-robots-arent-the-biggest-threat-to-the-future-of-work-policy-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/mit-report-robots-arent-the-biggest-threat-to-the-future-of-work-policy-is","title":{"rendered":"MIT Report: Robots Aren\u2019t the Biggest Threat to the Future of Work\u2014Policy Is"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mit-report-robots-arent-the-biggest-threat-to-the-future-of-work-policy-is2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But the MIT report also acknowledges that while fears of an imminent jobs apocalypse have been over-hyped, the way technology has been deployed over recent decades has polarized the economy, with growth in both white-collar work and low-paid service work at the expense of middle-tier occupations like receptionists, clerks, and assembly-line workers.<\/p>\n<p>This is not an inevitable consequence of technological change, though, say the authors. The problem is that the spoils from technology-driven productivity gains have not been shared equally. The report notes that while US productivity has risen 66 percent since 1978, compensation for production workers and those in non-supervisory roles has risen only 10 percent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople understand that automation can make the country richer and make them poorer, and that they\u2019re not sharing in those gains,\u201d economist David Autor, a co-chair of the task force, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.mit.edu\/2020\/work-of-future-final-report-1117\">said<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/news.mit.edu\/2020\/work-of-future-final-report-1117\"> in a press release<\/a>. \u201cWe need to restore the synergy between rising productivity and improvements in labor market opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But the MIT report also acknowledges that while fears of an imminent jobs apocalypse have been over-hyped, the way technology has been deployed over recent decades has polarized the economy, with growth in both white-collar work and low-paid service work at the expense of middle-tier occupations like receptionists, clerks, and assembly-line workers. This is not [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,1878,31,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-employment","category-policy","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}