Foundations of Work and Employment in the 21st Century

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Foundations of Work and Employment
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Introduction:
The essay provides an insight into the foundations of work and employment in the 21st
century due to the advances in the technology. It provides an insight into whether robotization
and automation makes the aspect of the industrial conflict a thing of the past during this
particular century. In fact, the essay portrays how a segment of the automation technology
impacts workplace and work. The essay also portrays what the companies and the educational
institutes are undergoing for closing the existing gap that would worsen without adjustments to
system for preparing the existing and the future workers with the skills that remains on demand.
The essay further tries to establish the fact that with every new wave of automation and
robotization there is a fear of the swatches of profession becoming extinct thereby making
conflict a thing of the past. There have been instances when these advances have resulted in the
adaptations of the job profiles where skills of the typist and the switchboard operator have been
replaced by the role of the personal assistant. In certain cases, automation and robotization have
replaced certain tasks but led to the creation of the greater demand for job profile.
Discussion:
The increasing level of automation and robotization of the work during twenty first
century will make the industrial conflict a thing of the past. According to Jacques (2017), the
increasing automation and robotization has brought about a change in the ways of working as
well as living. Automation not only improves the productivity but enables the nation and the
company in not only remaining but also becoming competitive. It enables the establishment of
the newer business models that remains increasingly focused on the production of newer goods
and services thereby enhancing the efficiency and the flexibility of the companies in supplying
those goods and services (Blikstein 2013).

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David (2015) put forward that increased level of automation have a past history of
creating positive impact on the job quality and the remuneration. There hardly exists any
historical evidence where automation and robotization have proved to be detrimental to the
overall levels of employment. However, there has always been a fear about how the new changes
have been implemented with every wave of the technological change. In this particular essay the
fear revolves on the how enhanced automation and robotization leads to job replacement and
creation of intelligent robots that not only outsmarted but also controlled the humans. It has been
noticed that the public attitudes towards automation and robotization differs across the countries
between the developed and the developing economy and also within the developed economies
(Schwab 2017). It has been found that the developed economies like China and the Japan
generally have a positive discourse towards the robots; some of it is has been found to be
cultural. For instance, the positivity in the attitude towards the robots in a country like Japan can
be explained through cultural heritage of animism that accords the non human objects.
According to Hancock (2014), what seems important is how the automation especially
the robotization is employed in the present times. It can be analyzed with certain degree of
accuracy of how the uptake of the robots impacts the industry, business model and the workers in
the coming 10 years. It therefore represented a positive picture where the quality of the work and
its remuneration will improves that will lead to the creation and the improvement of the newer
job types. Increasing robotization and automation have also increased the options for the people
in the job market but they have been limited by the physical disability or the reducing physical
strength due to ageing. This is a scenario in which the small and medium sized companies that
accounted for closer to 90 percent of the business in economies remains in a better position for
competing and assuming that the newer roles across the globalized supply chain network. This