Automation will reshape the next generation of American work, but a new report from Walmart finds an effective response will create positive results.
According to “America at Work: A National Mosaic and Roadmap for Tomorrow,” a new analytical report from Walmart and McKinsey & Company, automation means jobs will be done differently, but not disappear. McKinsey data indicates 60% of occupations could see at least 30% of their activities automated.
Walmart suggests that six principal responses will enable the U.S. workforce to successfully adapt to automation. These are fostering economic development and creating new jobs, retraining and upskilling displaced workers, boosting mobility within the labor market, building and maintaining infrastructure, updating social support systems for modern employment patterns (such as portable benefits for self-employed workers), and strengthening primary and secondary education for new economic realities.