4 careers where workers will have to change jobs by 2030 due to AI and shifts in how we shop, according to a McKinsey study
and other factors like an aging population and e-commerce could impact US employment in the years ahead. was driven by workers seeking better pay and balance in their careers. But between now and 2030, the McKinsey researchers projected that 11.8 million workers will have to change jobs not because they want to, but because they have to. Roughly nine million of them might have to find new jobs in new industries altogether, the study found.
"It's going to change the number of work hours that humans have to do when sometimes machines do some of their work," he said. The study estimated that within the four categories most affected, demand for clerks, retail salespersons, administrative assistants, and cashiers, in particular, would each decline by over 600,000 jobs a piece by 2030, in part because these jobs"involve a high share of repetitive tasks, data collection, and elementary data processing, all activities that automated systems can handle efficiently." They noted that improved chatbots could impact the demand for customer service roles.
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