Transportation, logistics jobs at risk

ACCORDING to a 2013 paper by Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael Osborne, 47 per cent of the US workforce is at risk of automation as a result of advances in technology.

This does not necessarily imply that all of these jobs in fact will be automated. A job is considered to be "exposed to automation" or "automatable" if the tasks it entails allow the work to be performed by a computer, even if a job is not actually automated.

Although many cashiers have been displaced by self-service technology, for example, there are still more than three million cashiers in employment in the United States.