Half of all work tasks will be handled by machines by 2025 in a shift likely to worsen inequality, a World Economic Forum¹ report has forecast.

 

世界经济论坛的一份报告预测，到2025年，半数工作任务将由机器处理，这一转变可能会加剧不平等。

 

The think tank said a "robot revolution" would create 97 million jobs worldwide but destroy almost as many, leaving some communities at risk.

 

Routine or manual jobs in administration and data processing were most at threat of automation, WEF said.

 

But it said new jobs would emerge in care, big data and the green economy.

 

The Forum's research spanned 300 of the world's biggest companies, who between them employ eight million people around the world.

 

More than 50% of employers surveyed said they expected to speed up the automation of some roles in their companies, while 43% felt they were likely to cut jobs due to technology.

 

WEF said the pandemic had sped up the adoption² of new technologies as firms looked to cut costs and adopt new ways of working. But it warned workers now faced a double threat from "accelerating automation and the fallout from the Covid-19 recession".

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