He said the three-year report, which also surveyed 1,000 businesses, discovered that while some major employers had developed tools to mitigate the effects of automation and AI to support staff, many smaller employers struggled to comprehend how they would transform the workplace and what skills and training of staff would be needed in order to adapt over the next decade.
Ministers need to act in the interest of those who will be made unemployed or whose jobs dramatically change, says the report by the Institute for the Future of Work (IFOW) thinktank, in order to prevent skills shortages hitting employers and workers from suffering a decline in job satisfaction and wellbeing.
AI-based automation of jobs could increase inequality in UK, report says Government intervention key to supporting businesses through transition, research by IFOW thinktank suggests.
The automation of millions of jobs will increase inequality in the UK unless the government intervenes to support small businesses and workers through the transition, according to a report into the future of work.
Christopher Pissarides, a Nobel prize-winner in economics and the report’s main author, said ministers needed to consider “how AI can bring productivity and prosperity, without putting people under more intense stress and pressure?
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