If you don’t mind me asking, what do you do for a living? The reason I ask is that if you’re an accountant, estate agent or work in a bank, I’m sorry to say I’ve got some bad news for you.
According to Oxford academics Michael Osborne and Carl Frey, there’s more than an 80 per cent chance that these jobs will start to be replaced by technology in the coming years.
This is a continuation of a trend we’ve seen in previous decades. In the Eighties and Nineties, advanced robots supplanted human workers in factories. Today, as technological development accelerates, white-collar jobs in fields such as finance and administration are under pressure.
