Mr Jobs
Disruptions in the labour market will result in more jobs - if we prepare for them - says Jonas Prising, ManpowerGroup chairman and CEO.
WHAT the World Economic Forum (WEF) has labelled the Fourth Industrial Revolution, Jonas Prising calls the human age. Indeed, while there has been hand-wringing over the potential loss of jobs to algorithms and robots in "Industry 4.0" transformations set to fundamentally change how we live and work, the chairman and CEO of global recruitment firm ManpowerGroup is rather more sanguine. After all, the phenomenon about technology - manifest largely in digitisation these days - advancing so quickly that many people feel left behind, is not new, he reminds you.
"We're living at a time of great disruption as it relates to the labour market and globally," says the Swede. "Much in the same way as we lived through the industrial revolution, we're now feeling the effects of globalisation and digitisation." The changes now under…
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