GENEVA, May 1(Reuters) - Around a quarter of jobs are
set to change in the next five years, according to a survey of
employers published on Monday by the World Economic Forum (WEF),
the organisation known for its annual meeting in Davos,
Switzerland.
Some 69 million jobs will be created and 83 million
eliminated by 2027, it said, resulting in a net decrease of 2%
of current employment, according to the Future of Jobs report.
The survey is based on input from some 800 companies
employing more than 11 million workers and uses a dataset of 673
million jobs.
Technology and digitalisation is both the driver of job
creation and of destruction, a summary of the report said.
"Advancing technology adoption and increasing digitization
will cause significant labour market churn," it said.
The fastest declining roles will be secretarial and clerical
roles such as bank tellers and cashiers which can be automated
while demand for AI machine learning specialists and
cybersecurity experts is expected to grow significantly, it
said.
(Reporting by Emma Farge; Editing by Hugh Lawson)
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