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Read the article below. Realize this is just one study and I didn't see a reference to where it had been duplicated. There are all kinds of "studies" that can say anything you want, but jobs being replaced by automation is true to some extent although it's unlikely that this study has figured out the future accurately What kind of jobs in IT do you think could be automated? What non-IT jobs do you think could be automated? Does in the workforce requires continuous learning? Think about the things like Redbox and Netflix that put Blockbuster out of business. Redbox automated the movie rental pro a huge store to maintain and multiple people to hire to rent out those movies, issue cards, etc. Think about all the things that computers have replaced. There's not as much need for faxing now that we have email, IM, etc. Less faxing means less printers, paper, ink needed, less printer technicians and less printer skills. DHCP eliminated the need for someone to manually update the hosts file on every machine in the early days of computing. We now have scripting languages that can batch together multiple computer processes and programs to do many tasks together at once and even at a specific time after hours. What other comm this article encourage you to co ntinue you r education? Do you think staying relevant cess and eliminated the need for ents would you like to add? s://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2017 0/567408644/automati 800-million-workers-worldwide-b y-2030-study-sa

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Automation is a threat to job security of several individuals who are working in the IT sector and also in the non-IT sector. Many jobs are being lost and will be lost to automation. Education and skills in automation is necessary and re-skilling to automation technologies are mandatory for survival of jobs in the IT industry.

There are many kinds of IT jobs which can be automated in today's time such as:

Data entry operators, manual typing, manual testing of software - These jobs are much threatened by the automation move in the IT industry. Automation is also creating new jobs which require the individuals to be re-skilled in those technologies and tools.

Many non-IT jobs also can be automated, many processes in banking - cash withdrawal, receipt, clerk jobs and many other activities can be automated, railway ticket vending machines can be installed without using any manual person as a clerk, many tax management activities can be automated.

I think, education need to be continued as education of everything gives us a objective to be appropriate for a job change in future and also get us re-skilled according to the opportunities and conditions of the job market. Education is basic and is important for understanding anything that's occurring in the technical front these days. So I think one should continue the education.

Yes, staying relevant in the workforce as mentioned above sure needs more and continuous learning. We have to be open to get re-skilled and learn continuously of technologies and apply them as relevant to our jobs. Such skills and learning will make sure we don't get behind the new era of technologies and skills required in the IT job market.