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businesses are putting a focus on attracting state those who are entering the workforce
and retaining talent in a digital world. We’re today have a greater probability of having
social creatures, and regardless of the role an irrelevant skillset tomorrow. Employers will
an employee plays in the organization, each be looking for new, innovative measures for
position plays an important part through cost-savings and many may become more
the quality of work that needs to get done. comfortable with WFH employees, so the
The impact of the traditional watercooler obligation will fall to the employee to evolve
conversation on could not have been valued their position or risk becoming obsolete. As
more until employees were two months into AI and automated technology continues EVAN BOUDREAUX
WFH and the only social interaction that was to become perfected, and with a shift to a
occurring was between their families or the remote workforce, candidates will not just be DIRECTOR OF ECONOMIC
accumulated take-out boxes overflowing their competing with job seekers in their city, or
garbage can—moreover, take a look at the even actual people for that matter, creating DEVELOPMENT
pet adoption rate for 2020. Camaraderie a fiercer field of competition. map-
is a major part in that, and without those
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a sort of technological revolution, where where employers and employees put their enve
the emergence of AI and automation will focus. Employers will have to become more
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obsolete. The burden for adaption falls on retaining, and managing talent remotely with glob
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50% of global employment opportunities were space will change and there will need to be
theoretically determined to be automated— more strategic planning in terms of what
potentially meaning that as little as 400 million role their physical office space will play in
globally could be displaced by 2030 due the larger business operations. Likewise, as
to automation. That being said, while the new, more advanced tools become available
large majority of jobs that will exist in 2030 in the workforce, employees will be required
do not exist currently, it’s not far-fetched to to evolve with them.

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