The technology is changing our jobs faster than ever before. Many believe we are facing a new industrial revolution, the development now goes so quickly that many jobs will disappear.
Confederation (NHO) take forecasts seriously. Today sees the start of the NHO Annual Conference “The new working life ‘.
Målfrid Baik is regional director of NHO Finnmark. Photo: Sunniva Sollied Møller / nrk
– The technological development is ongoing and faster than you think. Therefore it is important to have looking towards the future, and this conference is a step in the right direction, says Målfrid Baik.
After an extensive career in business in Northern Norway, started Baik in new job as regional director of NHO Finnmark 1 January. Future jobs is one of the themes that are very important for the new director.
Dramatic predictions
Future Employment:
Calculations performed by the research institute Oxford Martin School comes with dramatic predictions about how modern technology could replace humans in a variety of jobs, according to NHO on their website.
- Approximately 47 percent of all jobs in America today have a high probability of being automated away within 20 years (Frey and Osborne, 2013).
- The corresponding figures for Norway is 33 percent (SSB).
Technology Changes will affect all sectors and occupations, but it is particularly jobs without formal educational requirements scientists believe will be replaced by technology.
Statistics Norway estimates that we in 2030 will have a surplus of 147,000 people with compulsory schooling as their highest education.
In Finnmark has over a third of the population only elementary school as their highest education. On a national basis this applies to 1,130,197 people.
The future need today’s young
Technology Changes will affect all sectors and occupations, but it is particularly jobs without formal educational requirements scientists believe will be replaced by technology.
Målfrid Baik is not worried about the level of education neither Finnmark or Norway. She notes that NHO has an ongoing collaboration with educational institutions and LO:
– We are talking about the future of labor. Therefore, it is incredibly important for today’s young people get the right guidance, information and inspiration to educational choices that will benefit forward-Norway.
In Norway 1 130,197 people only elementary school as their highest education (2014). Photo: Frank May / NTB scanpix
When Baik talking about educational choices, it is not only higher education she thinks about.
– We have to get better to front vocational training. Skilled workers are an important driving force for development in Finnmark, she says.
Focuses on opportunities
Statistics Norway estimates that we in 2030 will have a surplus of 147,000 people with completed elementary school as their highest education. Without restructuring, many people fall outside the future labor market.
The newly appointed regional director of NHO nevertheless choose to focus on the possibilities:
– The technological developments also provide great opportunities and we must facilitate value creation and new jobs. The development will take its course whether we want it or not. If we are not with it, we will, at worst, fail to realize the potential we have in Finnmark and in Norway, believes Baik.
The need for new skills
In the years coming labor markets will increasingly be characterized by digitalization and automation.
Sparebank 1 Northern Norway, also called Rødbanken in Tromso. Photo: Jørn Inge Johansen / NRK
Sparebank 1 Northern Norway these days goodbye with 150 employees who have applied for severance packages. The need for bank officials is not what it once was. Robots have taken over many of the tasks.
– We are glad that so many have chosen to take severance package. The way people now use our services, means that we need to be fewer employees in the group, says Geir Håvard Hansen, communications manager of Sparebank 1 Northern Norway.
– same time, we need additional expertise and now we get the opportunity to recruit the new skills in the areas where we need it, says kommunikasjonssefen.
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