Australia – One in three jobs at risk of being taken over by robots

A third of Australian jobs are at risk of becoming automated by 2030, according to research from Adzuna.

Adzuna’s research added that lower-skilled and manual labour roles are most at risk of being automated in the coming years, particularly in regional areas. Futhermore, the data shows a disparity between the percentage of jobs at risk in capital cities compared to their respective states. For instance, 16% of jobs are at risk in Melbourne, whereas 35% are at risk of automation across Victoria as a whole.

“We run the real risk of mass unemployment in our regions and over-population of our major cities,” Adzuna CEO Raife Watson said. “As it stands, Australians who work in manual jobs in regional Australia will face high levels of unemployment over the next decade and will have little choice but to up-skill and move to cities like Sydney and Melbourne.”

Meanwhile, eight out of ten of the jobs least at risk of being automated are in the healthcare industry.

The study also revealed the average salaries for jobs likely to be replaced by robots is much lower, AUD 63,337 (approximately USD 45,500) when compared to those unlikely to be affected, AUD 129,099 (approximately USD 98,970). However, Watson said not all white-collar jobs are immune from automation.

“New technology is introduced almost every day,” Watson said. “Specific types of programmers that were in high demand five years ago now have skills that are obsolete.”

“Australians must be vigilant and continue to think about jobs that will be difficult to replace in the future,” Watson said. “Build a career in a job that requires emotional intelligence and tasks that cannot be replicated by a machine.”

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