Digital transformation will make some jobs disappear or appear.

Digital transformation can create many new industries. Illustration photo

How has work changed?

Digital transformation will cause some jobs to disappear or appear. It is difficult to predict correctly, because everything is changing, many new jobs are still unknown to humans at this time. In the near future, the jobs that will be automated will be those that do not require social skills and creativity.

Some examples of occupations that are highly automatable include: Telemarketer, Librarian, Insurance Assessor, Sports Referee, Courier.

Some examples of less affected occupations include: Therapists, Choreographers, Surgeons, Psychologists, Anthropologists and Archaeologists, Architects, Business Executives.

Does digital transformation cause unemployment?

Worries about job loss have always been a concern with each new industrial revolution. But the previous three did not cause unemployment; on the contrary, unemployment tended to decrease. Unemployment increases are mainly due to economic recessions. The new industrial revolutions destroy some jobs but create many new ones. The problem is retraining workers.

But digital transformation can actively support retraining, as well as create tools and platforms to make new professions easier to learn and do. Digital transformation gives birth to digital universities, giving birth to distance learning platforms that make training easier, allowing us to study anytime, practice anytime, take exams and tests anytime, through our inseparable objects such as mobile phones or tablets.

For example, a new profession is labeling faces to teach machines to recognize faces. There are billions of photos given to workers to distinguish and label men and women, young and old, fat and thin, city or rural people. This profession can still be done online in the countryside, and training only needs to be done through online instructions. People in the countryside do not have to go to the city to work as assembly or garment workers, but can still stay in the countryside to do labeling, all they need is a phone, tablet or computer and an internet connection. This is an example of a new profession.