"Up to three million UK jobs could be lost to AI over the next ten years, according to the National Foundation For Educational Research (NFER), prompting calls for widespread reskilling programs. In a new , the foundation said that roles in at-risk occupations such as administration, secretarial services, customer service, and machine operations are declining at a much faster rate than previously predicted. While the number of jobs in the labor market as a whole is actually expected to grow by 2035, the study found most growth will be in occupations such as science, engineering, and legal roles."
""The report's focus is on what are now widely recognized as the essential employment skills that underpin employability and are increasingly sought after in the evolving world of work. It makes a major contribution to our understanding of how to better value, develop, and support these skills," said Josh Hillman, director of education at the Nuffield Foundation."
""Crucially, it also provides the education system, employers, and policymakers with evidence to help ensure the workforce can continue to build and use them effectively in a dynamic labor market.""
Up to three million UK jobs could be lost to AI over the next ten years, concentrated in administration, secretarial services, customer service and machine operation roles that are declining faster than previously predicted. Overall employment is expected to grow by 2035, but most growth will occur in science, engineering and legal occupations that demand communication, collaboration, problem-solving, organizing, planning and prioritizing, creative thinking and information literacy. Around 3.7 million workers currently have substantial shortfalls in these six skills, rising to about seven million by 2035 without intervention. Employer and government support for reskilling is limited, prompting calls for expanded retraining programs.
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