Posted By: James
Monday 11th August 2014
The Times' Adrian Wooldridge considers the squeezed middle-class, the solicitors and chartered accountants, school teachers and travelling salesmen. The middle class is being torn asunder, he says, explaining that “super-professionals” are prospering while “submerging professionals” are falling behind. Computer software is either destroying their jobs completely or reducing them to a dull routine that could be done by anybody. Economists at Oxford University calculate that jobs are at a high risk of being automated in 47% of the occupational categories into which work is customarily sorted. High on the at-risk list are accountancy, legal work, technical writing and other white-collar jobs.
The Sunday Times, Page: 20
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