- OpenText™ | Blogs
- 18.07.2017
- EN
OpenText™ "The Future of Information: The Impact of the Digital Revolution"
This Digital Revolution is not about job creation, it is about job destruction.
As many as 25 to 40 million jobs will disappear as a direct result of extreme automation and extreme connectivity. The greatest losses will occur in white-collar office and administrative roles.
We experienced similar waves of automation when Material Requirements Planning (MRP) replaced Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), and ERP shifted to CRM, and these were replaced by e-business suites. When this happened, jobs were created, many of which were offshore. New research shows that over the next two decades, nearly half of all jobs will be susceptible to automation.