How our jobs will look like in the future?

Without doubt out working life is changing and will be completely transformed together with a new era of digitalisation and digital transformation. I found an interesting article "Technology, jobs and the future of work" (McKinsey & Company, 2019) that got me thinking about how our jobs will look like in the future.
McKinsey and Company have done and extensive research on over 2,000 work related tasks and quantified the accessibility to automate them. The outcome of this research was that many jobs that we are doing to this day has a high potential to be automated.

"The impact will be felt not just by factory workers and clerks but also by landscape gardeners and dental lab technicians, fashion designers, insurance sales representatives, and even CEOs."

The research also found that more than half of all work occupations have at least a third of activities that can be automated, which means that most of the current occupations will change and more people will be working within field of technology. But how will we adapt to this?
In the article they say that with the evolvement of machines and acquisition of automated capabilities the adoption of automation will pick up, but it will require workers with sufficient technological skills.
Personally, I see technological advancement within our work task optimistically. Technology can help to improve the matchmaking between employers and employees. The high aggregation of data about the candidates as well as about the job offers will increase the productivity and job satisfaction. Moreover, independent work will rise because it will have better digital "support". Already now, there is a rise of freelancers who have been enabled to freely work via digital platforms. And lastly, technology and automation advancement in the future will create many new jobs.

"A new category of knowledge-enabled jobs will become possible as machines embed intelligence and knowledge that less-skilled workers can access with a little training."

To sum up, technology and digitalisation advancement will change working environment as we know it. Without doubt humanity will need to find way to adapt, to learn fast and become more technologically knowledgable.

Resources:
McKinsey & Company. (2019). Technology, jobs, and the future of work. [online] Available at: https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/employment-and-growth/technology-jobs-and-the-future-of-work [Accessed 4 Sep. 2019].