{"id":35555,"date":"2017-03-24T17:22:41","date_gmt":"2017-03-25T00:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/why-american-jobs-are-more-at-risk-of-automation-than-jobs-in-germany-or-the-uk"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:07:54","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:07:54","slug":"why-american-jobs-are-more-at-risk-of-automation-than-jobs-in-germany-or-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/why-american-jobs-are-more-at-risk-of-automation-than-jobs-in-germany-or-the-uk","title":{"rendered":"Why American jobs are more at risk of automation than jobs in Germany or the UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/why-american-jobs-are-more-at-risk-of-automation-than-jobs-in-germany-or-the-uk.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>PWC predicts 30% of jobs to be automated by 2030s.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>You\u2019ve been warned before\u2014robots are coming for your job. The speed of technological advancement, particularly in smart automation, has sprung countless economic studies and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/01\/12\/upshot\/in-obamas-farewell-a-warning-on-automations-perils.html?_r=0\">political warnings<\/a> about how many people are likely to lose their jobs to this rise of the machines. But it\u2019s not an easy number to peg down; estimates range from <a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/884614\/how-many-us-jobs-are-at-risk-of-automation\/\">5%<\/a> to 50%.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pwc.co.uk\/economic-services\/ukeo\/pwcukeo-section-4-automation-march-2017-v2.pdf\">latest predictions from PricewaterhouseCoopers<\/a> (pdf) survey the damage for specific countries. Analysts at the consulting firm said that by the early 2030s, 38% of US jobs are at a high risk of automation, more than in Germany, the UK, and Japan.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/why-american-jobs-are-more-at-risk-of-automation-than-jobs-in-germany-or-the-uk.png\"><\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/941163\/pwc-study-automation-risk-is-higher-for-american-jobs-than-for-workers-in-germany-the-uk-and-japan\/?utm_source=qzfb\">https:\/\/qz.com\/941163\/pwc-study-automation-risk-is-higher-fo...ource=qzfb<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PWC predicts 30% of jobs to be automated by 2030s. You\u2019ve been warned before\u2014robots are coming for your job. The speed of technological advancement, particularly in smart automation, has sprung countless economic studies and political warnings about how many people are likely to lose their jobs to this rise of the machines. But it\u2019s not [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":369,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,1878,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-employment","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35555","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\/369"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35555"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58323,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35555\/revisions\/58323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}