Remote workers are now more susceptible to automation due to their tasks being digital and thus more easily automated, but also indicates large potential productivity benefits.
While some remote workers will lose their jobs, many will experience extensive job change requiring reskilling in management and AI-specific skills to adapt to the changing job landscape and maintain productivity.
There's a tidy story out there when it comes to automation: If anyone felt its bite, it was workers in manufacturing and trade jobs first. The advent of the mechanized loom pushed weavers who worked for themselves into factories.
After Ford trotted out the assembly line, skilled mechanics and engineers had to learn to go through rote motions. Eventually, support staff in offices experienced a similar fate when networked PCs arrived, clerical and administrative workers saw their jobs shift.
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