Future Jobs

A Future Prognosis

Athena @ Shaping Tomorrow

22 November 2024
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World Outlook
Main factors that cause something to happen globally
AI could displace up to 300 million jobs worldwide by 2030, affecting approximately 18% of the global workforce. Tate's Employment for Immigration to NZ (and AUS)
Artificial Intelligence has the potential to displace up to 300 million jobs worldwide by 2030, raising concerns about employment and the need for workforce adaptation. All About AI
Payment giant Visa is moving to restructure its global business operations, a process that will see around 1,400 job layoffs by the end of 2024. Fintech Singapore
Global regions, coloured according to number of forecasts
SWOT
Strengths
  • Fostering Strategic Alliances: Strengthening partnerships between Indian and African businesses will drive innovation, create jobs, and stimulate growth. PMF IAS
  • The EXPORT MOROCCO NOW (2024-2026) program aims to support 337 companies, generate 30 billion dirhams in additional export revenue, and create 20,000 jobs by 2026. Hespress English
  • Norway's thriving industries include petroleum and gas (Statoil), fishing, finance (Nordea) and chemicals (Norsk Hydro), so professionals with find plenty of job opportunities. EDUopinions
Weaknesses
  • The gap between how many jobs are being created and the maximum number the U.S. economy can absorb without triggering inflation - is much slimmer than it might have been without recent influxes of immigrants. NBC News
  • President Trump will work quickly to fix and restore an economy that puts American workers by re-shoring American jobs, lowering inflation, raising real wages, lowering taxes, cutting regulations, and unshackling American energy. ABC News
  • Trump has criticised current EV incentives, focusing more on traditional vehicles, and has proposed to rescind unspent funds from the Inflation Reduction Act, a move that could impact both regional EV production, and naturally, manufacturing jobs linked to EV production. Automotive Manufacturing Solutions
Opportunities
  • LinkedIn is packed with opportunities - almost 6 million job posts in the US alone. Tech.co
  • The growth of the renewable energy sector is expected to create millions of new jobs globally, transforming local economies and enhancing energy security. Scirp
  • Ultimately, the Changamka Festival is a testament to how profiling and supporting local manufacturing plays a huge role in creating job opportunities and driving economic prosperity for Kenya. Kenya Association of Manufacturers
Threats
  • Banning UNRWA would put at risk the jobs of 17,000 employees in Gaza and the West Bank. ArabNews
  • Over seven hundred thousand U.S. workers could be at risk for job loss when manufacturers relocate closer to renewable energy sources. CFR Education from the Council on Foreign Relations
  • One-in-four Americans fears losing their job over 2025, even as roughly half now think the vaunted American Dream of home ownership has become unattainable, particularly in coastal cities. UnHerd
Influencers
Countries
Cities
People
Organizations
S-Curve

A framework that describes a 4-phase level of maturity to help determine potential and inform innovation strategy.

Weak
job, autonomous, artificial intelligence, augmented reality, automation, autonomous car
Emerging
artificial intelligence, job, automation, EV, 5G, economy
Maturing
job, economy, clean, GDP, growth, company
Declining
job, economy, automation, GDP, company, coal
Sentiment
Past Year: More Positive
Compare changing sentiment to a benchmark of all forecasts
AI could displace up to 300 million jobs worldwide by 2030, affecting approximately 18% of the global workforce. Tate's Employment for Immigration to NZ (and AUS)
The transition to green hydrogen could support around 2 million jobs globally per year between 2030 and 2050. Trade Horizons
PEST
Political
  • For 15 years, the Government of Canada, through FedDev Ontario, has worked to advance and diversify the southern Ontario economy through funding opportunities and business services that support innovation, growth and job creation in Canada's most populous region. StockTitan
  • Cooperation between China and Peru, including the Chancay Port project and other fields, will bring more job opportunities and economic growth to Peru, improving people's living standards. PR Newswire
  • The embattled coal-fired generator provides more than 250 local jobs but is slated to begin shutting down from 2028 as the federal government looks to transition away from coal-fired power. ABC News
Economic
  • The American Culinary Federation accredits numerous formal apprenticeship opportunities where prospective chefs can receive a mixture of instruction and on-the-job training in a supervised environment. Glassdoor
  • In the first ten months of 2024, the Council for the Development of Cambodia approved 346 new projects totaling $5 billion, expected to create about 270,000 jobs. Construction & Property News
  • Urban climate finance promises significant economic benefits, with projections showing potential returns of US$ 23.9 trillion by 2050 through job creation, cleaner energy, and sustainable housing. C40 Cities
Social
  • The State Significant Rezoning Policy preferences housing and jobs and will help unlock land to achieve the NSW Government's commitment to deliver 377,000 new well-located homes across metropolitan Sydney and regional NSW by 2029. planning
  • While S&P Global sees a shift in regional growth patterns in Asia and expects Asia-Pacific's growth engine to shift from China to south and Southeast Asia, several challenges remain, the biggest being the skilling of the youth population and providing them jobs. Economic Times
  • Predictions like Altman's and Musk's imply that AGI could profoundly impact society by enabling rapid advancements and presenting existential risks, from transforming jobs to developing powerful autonomous systems. THE COMUNICANO
Technological
  • 77% of all jobs in the mining sector will be affected by emerging technologies over the next five years. AZoMining
  • In Kenya, over 50% of jobs will require digital literacy, and similar trends are evident in countries like Nigeria, Rwanda, and Cote d'Ivoire. Businessday NG
  • As many as 1.1 billion jobs could be transformed by technology over the next decade. Gloat
Financial Impact
With cross-border commerce expected to reach $290 trillion by 2030 and many jobs no longer being region-specific, it's finally time for us to solve how we move money. Blockworks
By 2030, the shortage of developers worldwide could reach a staggering 85.2 million job vacancies, posing a significant risk to companies internationally and potentially leading to revenue losses exceeding $8.4 trillion. IT News Africa | Business Technology, Telecoms and Star
In the EU, reaching net-zero before 2050 could unlock between €5trn and €6.1trn in growth, supporting 1.2 million to 1.4 million jobs annually. Edie
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System Map
Organizations
Sectors
Cities
Countries
People
Scenarios
Creates plausible alternative futures of what can happen and encourages development of a robust, agile response
300 million full-time jobs across the globe could be disrupted - not necessarily replaced - by AI in the coming years. Insider
By 2025, AI and automation could displace 85 million jobs globally. Thoughtful
AI could potentially replace around 300 million jobs worldwide by 2030. DataCamp
Warnings
Changing proportion of published forecasts
Artificial intelligence technologies could lead to the creation of about 97 million new jobs worldwide by 2025, outpacing the approximately 85 million jobs displaced to technology or machines. Washington State Standard
Up to 800 million people worldwide could be displaced by automation and need to find new jobs by 2030. Fortune
Solutions
Know how others are tackling issues with this topic
A research organization, robots could replace up to 20 million jobs globally by 2030. Centre for International Governance Innovation
In the updated Net Zero Emissions by 2050 Scenario - which provides a global energy sector pathway consistent with limiting global warming to 1.5 °C - 30 million new clean energy jobs are created by 2030, while close to 13 million jobs in fossil fuel-related industries are at risk. Energy Connects
The research bolsters European Commission efforts to develop the virtual-worlds domain, which could provide 860000 new jobs in Europe this decade as the worldwide sector grows from €27 billion in 2022. Robothub
Key topics
Extremes
Investigate what’s transforming or collapsing
By 2030, the majority of the world's extreme poor, which includes a large proportion of displaced people, will live in fragile and conflict affected states - so job creation in fragile settings has the significant potential to address poverty. World Bank Blogs
Climate change could push an additional 100 million people into extreme poverty, drive 130 million more into chronic hunger, and result in the global loss of 72 million full-time jobs by 2030. International Institute for Environment and Development
By 2030, extreme weather events could jeopardise $65 billion worth of apparel exports and eliminate nearly one million jobs in four economies that are among the most central to the global fashion industry - in Bangladesh, Cambodia, Pakistan and Vietnam. The Business of Fashion
What's Next
Changing proportion of material mentioning future years
All jobs will undergo transformation in the coming five years and data will be at the center of it. Citizen Matters
Five million jobs in the world's leading economies could disappear over the next five years. MarketWatch
Questions
Can?
How can we balance efficiency with job security? Synchtank
How can we ensure flexibility, and job security, alongside equal opportunities in new fields? European Institute for Gender Equality
Which jobs can not AI replace? Bombay Softwares
How?
How will the green transition affect jobs and labour? CFR Education from the Council on Foreign Relations
How do we make sure battery jobs are safe jobs? Automotive News
How will jobs truly be impacted as AI and automation inevitably changes and reshapes tasks and roles, but also give birth to new ones? Fortune
Who?
Who will be positioned to benefit from the new jobs that will be created? Brookings
Any partingwords of wisdom for marketers and business leaders who want to do a better job of marketing toHispanic consumers and serving them as customers? Hubspot
What about the thousands of people who will lose jobs at Klarna and others that take a cue from Siemiatkowski about the value of human capital? The Register
What?
What are the current Job Market and Salary Trends in Data Analytics? DataMites Blog
What jobs and skills have the highest potential for AI replacement? ABC News
What are the implications of ROS for workforce dynamics and job displacement? Mobility Foresights
When?
What happens when AI can do every job? C2C Journal
AI is becoming indispensable to job seekers - and recruiters are concerned | Fortune Europe >> Britain's justice system has responded forcefully to the riots >> When will Apple upgrade all of its Macs to M4? Futureseek Link Digest
Why waste time doing and redoing relatively basic jobs like data entry, and even higher-level work like document review, tax calculations, and compliance checks, when tech tools can do it quicker, more comprehensively, and with less risk of human error? Tax & Accounting Blog Posts by Thomson Reuters
Will?
If millions of jobs are going to be displaced by AI, will they be replaced by new roles for humans as the technology creates fresh opportunities? The Guardian
Will artificial intelligence take over all jobs? UCL News
Will Agentforce Disrupt the Salesforce Job Market? Salesforce Ben
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