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Question 4 Technology is a job stealer "what are your views on this? Reflect and Illustrate with examples? (4 Marks ) Subject Organisation Behavior

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Automation has long been making certain kinds of jobs disappear. Technology, and now AI, make individuals more productive so for the same work you now need less people.AI is going to make even more of those kinds of jobs disappear, there are AIs that can do certain kinds of work, previously done by people, with nothing more than a supervisor, and it will complete many times faster also.I would say that technology is taking away some jobs but it’s also creating new ones.The real problem is that a lot of people are not equipped for those new jobs. Some companies have been upgrading skills of their employees to take them out of automated jobs and into the new ones that open. However there are companies that aren’t doing that. Also there are people just outright refuse to learn new things.

There are many problems with respect to employment and focusing on just technology is not getting the full picture. However there is still some bit of picture to see here. The takeaway is to understand where tech and AI are going and retool yourself. I do that constantly and it pains me to see so many people who don’t want to pick up new skills and act as if their jobs will be around 5 years from now. Yes. It has been since we invented technology. It got faster as the industrial revolution took hold. We were always able to shift to other jobs though, and the tech itself created new jobs for those coming up. That’s not really happening anymore because the lower tech jobs…the ones that create jobs for the average person…are becoming automated. That comes as traditional jobs are also becoming automated. So when truck driving becomes automated, where does a guy like me go? I already lost one career to technology, my body is too beat up to work construction every day, my sales experience is all from a quarter century ago. What about the millions of other drivers?

The same has already happened, and is continuing to happen, in manufacturing. It’s starting to hit office work. We already have the technology to 3-D print a house. Hell, it’s even creeping into the arts. Who thought driving jobs would be last ones available to average people?