Future proof - 4corners on employment

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Future proof - 4corners on employment

Post by Rorschach » Tue Dec 27, 2016 11:58 am

Did anyone see this episode, it was replayed recently...
http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/stories/ ... 491818.htm
it is well worth watching.

Regardless of what goes on globally or politically, the major issue facing Australians is the future of work. Unemployment is rising with a constant average of 600,000 Australians out of work with absolutely no jobs to obtain. Casual work is on the rise and has been since Keating was PM. But who can live on a meagre casual wage?

It is predicted that more than five million Australian jobs will simply disappear in the next 15 years, as a result of technology. That's 40% of the jobs that exist in Australia today.

What do you want to be when you grow up? Will those jobs even exist? Probably not.
"What's happening is the same thing that happened to blue collar work in the seventies, eighties and nineties is going to happen to white collar work...People need to start understanding the impact that it's going to have on them." Management Consultant
It would seem that today schools and universities are churning out students with qualifications for jobs that won't exist, instead of training them for the ones that will be created.
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Re: Future proof - 4corners on employment

Post by Outlaw Yogi » Tue Dec 27, 2016 6:17 pm

Spoze prostitutes will always have a job ... unless they invent a sexbot ... then dog collar workers will be unemployed too.
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