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How And When Automation May Affect Long-Haul Trucking

The Horizons Tracker

In Oxford’s Michael Osborne and Carl Benedikt Frey’s hugely influential 2013 paper looking at the likelihood of automation for various professions, truck driving was one of the professions that were projected to be automated in double-quick time. At risk (kind of). Department of Commerce, the U.S. Census Bureau, and the U.S.

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Raising Pay Can Help Organizations Overcome The Talent Shortage

The Horizons Tracker

Indeed, the unemployment rate has remained low throughout the decade since Oxford’s Frey and Osborne ignited the latest wave of concern about the impact of technology on jobs. Standardize and empower – Many companies that undervalue employees operate a command-and-control culture.

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Does Automation Result In More Jobs Being Created?

The Horizons Tracker

Since Frey and Osborne’s hugely popular paper in 2014, the traditional narrative surrounding automation at work has been that millions of jobs will be lost to the march of technologies such as robotics and artificial intelligence. And those are the kinds of things that managers tend to do.”. Workforce composition.

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How Tax Policy Encourages Firms To Invest In New Technology

The Horizons Tracker

While the flurry of stories on the topic seems to have accelerated in recent years, especially since Frey and Osborne’s notorious 2013 study of the topic, the evidence to date is that robots generally haven’t been “taking our jobs” at all.

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Rethinking The Impact AI Might Have On Work

The Horizons Tracker

It’s been a decade since Oxford’s Frey and Osborne published their hugely influential paper on the susceptibility of jobs to automation. They also utilize a cost model that encompasses the build, maintenance, and operational phases of running a computer vision.

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The Post-Pandemic Dynamic: What’s Changed in L&D with Virtual Learning and AI Advancements?

Experience to Lead

A 2020 study published in the Journal of Organizational Behavior found that employees who feel a strong sense of belonging at work are more engaged, motivated, productive and innovative. However, with this innovation comes a responsibility to scrutinize the human errors that could shape these learning pathways.

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“Government Entrepreneur” is Not an Oxymoron

Harvard Business Review

But imagine if the road that led to the Seattle City Council ridesharing hearings this month — with rulings that sharply curtail UberX, Lyft, and Sidecar’s operations there — had been a vastly different one. Without more public entrepreneurship, it’s hard to imagine meeting our public challenges or making the most of private innovation.