What If: 50% of Today's Jobs Disappear?
Channel: World Economic Forum
Date: 2018-09-24

What If: 50% of Today's Jobs Disappear? 
Automation based on today's technology is poised to take over 45% of workers' current tasks and 5% of full-time jobs. What if 50% of workers cannot be reskilled quickly enough to find new kinds of work?

Join an in-depth discussion that explores the possible, plausible and probable impacts of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

Speakers:
- Hilary Cottam, Founding Director, Participle, United Kingdom; Young Global Leader.
- John Hawksworth, Chief Economist, PwC, United Kingdom.
- Lee Jae-Myung, Governor of Gyeonggi Province, Republic of Korea.
- Troels Lund Poulsen, Minister for Employment of Denmark.

Moderated by:
- Jen Copestake, Reporter and Senior Producer, BBC World News, United Kingdom.

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