Half of paid work can be automated: report


  • TECH
  • Wednesday, 18 Jan 2017

Automatic robots work on a new Volkswagen Crafter production line at the newly opened Volkswagen factory in Wrzesnia near Poznan, Poland September 9, 2016. German car manufacture company officially open factory in Wrzesnia on October 24, 2016. Picture taken on September 9, 2016. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel

About half of the work that people are paid to do in the global economy can be automated by adapting existing technologies, according to McKinsey Global Institute. 

It also said people will need to continue working alongside machines to produce the economic growth rates which countries around the world aspire to reach. 

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