When The Robots Steal Your Job, You Can Be An 'Online Chaperone'
by The Daily Eye Team March 1 2016, 5:31 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 41 secsThe robots might pinch our jobs, but when they do, futurists want to let us know that there could be a whole host of positions still left for Homo sapiens to fill.
According to a new report published by Australian science agency the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), if policymakers and governments can prepare ahead and implement the correct safety nets for workers, it’ll mean that while some jobs might be headed for extinction, others will be created in their wake.
Those with the right qualifications could be working in everything from “decision support analysis” to “online chaperones”. Others will be actively creating their own jobs as entrepreneurs, or working for multiple employees as freelancers in an altogether more flexible labour market.