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WHAT'S NEXT?: AI will replace 16% of jobs over the next decade. A billion people will enter the job market over the next ten years.

[New] By embracing smart policies that embrace natural gas and the opportunities it presents for our entire economy, Pennsylvania can create 100,000 new jobs and add $60 billion in economic growth over the next decade.
[New] With more than 5 million jobs in information technology expected to be added globally by 2027, time is everything if businesses want to bag the best candidate out there.
[New] In Baltimore City, a county projected to see negative net job growth, white employees are projected to see positive net job growth by 2030, whereas African American jobs could sharply decline and account for more than 150 percent of the projected job losses in that area.
[New] Advancements in technology will lead the banking industry to see a massive reduction in headcount over the next decade, with a projected 200,000 jobs cut.
[New] Advances in automation, such as chatbots, will cause an estimated 200,000 lost jobs over the next 10 years, the biggest reduction of jobs in banking history.
[New] Bold climate action makes good business sense: Shifting to a low-carbon economy alone would offer $26 trillion worth of market opportunities and could create 65 million new low-carbon jobs.
[New] The increase of foreign direct investments is expected to continue in the period 2019-2021, which will contribute to the creation of new jobs.
[New] Canadian labour markets have performed very well over the first half of the year, but job growth will slow over the second half of the year alongside a weaker economy.
[New] A yearly rise in green investment of 2% of global output, or about $1.7 - trillion, will generate a net increase in global employment of some 170 million jobs by 2030.
[New] In the greatest transfer from labor to capital the banking industry has ever seen, U.S. banks will cut more than 200,000 jobs in the next decade as robots and other technology reduce the need for human workers.
[New] Between 400 million and 800 million of today's jobs could be transformed through automation by 2030 with some job losses and some job gains.
[New] Climate action is everyone's business and achieving our collective climate goals will require a mix of voluntary action and coherent policy frameworks.
[New] The number of workers whose parents were born in the United States is expected to decline by 8.2 million over the next 15 years.
[New] By 2030, technology adoption could increase the percentage of women in South Africa's workforce to 45 percent-nearly two percentage points higher than seen today - and create 1.6 million new jobs for women.
[New] AI will be an important driver of GDP in Europe and that talent shortage will be a major issue in the decade ahead.
[New] While 50,000 jobs are likely to be lost in fossil fuels over the next decade, just over 160,000 will be created in clean energy - a net increase of 110,000 new energy jobs in Canada.
[New] In North America, the transition to 100% renewal energy is projected to be associated with an increase in employment in the energy sector, from 1.8 million jobs (2015) to a peak of 3.8 million by 2025 and 2.7 million by 2050.
[New] AI augmentation will create $2.9 TRILLION of business value and 6.2 billion hours of worker productivity globally by 2021.
[New] San Jose has the lowest employment rates and the most jobs per person among the 50 largest U.S. metro areas, along with the highest home values and forecasted home-value appreciation.
If nothing changes, by 2030, more than half of the world's 1.6 billion children will not have basic skills to get an entry-level job or participate in society.
The tech industry's struggle to fill job vacancies could cost the UK economy £141 billion in GDP growth.

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Last updated: 13 October 2019