The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 12, 2024

It’s been a decade since Oxford’s Frey and Osborne published their hugely influential paper on the susceptibility of jobs to automation. The paper sparked a wave of concern about what impact the latest wave of automated technologies would have on the labor market.

Aggregate Demand 73

Aggregate Demand Osborne Comparison Engineering 73

The Horizons Tracker

JULY 28, 2019

Back in 2013, Oxford researchers Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael Osborne predicted that 47% of jobs would be automated within a decade. As labor market reforms have come and gone in the meantime, the general length of the working day has stubbornly endured.

Osborne 74

Osborne Long-term Proposal Technology 74

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2015

Osborne, researchers at the Oxford Martin School, published a paper estimating that 47% of all U.S. Although the jury is still out about robots stealing jobs , the pace at which AI and deep learning technologies have been advancing isn’t ebbing concerns over a future of disappearing work. labor force over the past three decades.

Technology 8

Technology Skills Deming Osborne 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2017

While flights of imagination from science-fiction writers, filmmakers, and techno-futurists involve things like flying cars and teleportation, in practice smart technology is making inroads in a piecemeal fashion, often in rather banal circumstances. The potential for technologies to enable smart societies is rising. trillion by 2026.

Benchmarking 14

Benchmarking Globalization Technology Policies 14

The Horizons Tracker

MAY 8, 2023

While the furor around robots taking our jobs has largely died down in recent years (not least due to the lack of any real evidence that it’s happening), it remains inevitable that the introduction of new technologies will cause disruption in the labor market. Most to lose Interestingly, seniority offered no protection.

Technology 117

Technology Osborne Learning-by-Doing Skills 117

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2015

It has also has inspired scholarship by academics such as Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael Osborne of Oxford University, who estimate that 47% of occupations in the United States could be automated within 20 years, and David Autor of MIT, who argues that the ability of machines to take on human jobs is vastly overstated.

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Osborne Technology McKinsey Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

Osborne from Oxford University calculated that about 47% of American jobs could disappear by 2020 due to digitization. Roland Berger applied its methodology to the French labor market and estimated that 42% of French jobs could be at risk. For example, we are only beginning to understand digitization’s effects on unemployment.

Maturity 8

Maturity Drucker Osborne Middle Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2017

After all, the job description involves poring through huge quantities of often disparate data to find insights that may prove helpful in every aspect of a business, including marketing, logistics, and human resources. Treat Osborn’s Law — “variables won’t; constants aren’t” — as your watchword.

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Osborne Politics Information Guidelines 8