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Automation to cost Southeast Asia millions of jobs, warns World Economic Forum

Agence France-Presse
Updated as of Sep 13 07:12 AM

Automation will soon make millions of low-skilled jobs -- from cashiers and machine operators to waiters and drivers -- redundant across Southeast Asia.  Read more »

8 in 10 SMEs use mobile payments, automation: FedEx study

Jessica Fenol, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Aug 30 04:13 PM

Ninety six percent of SMEs also use e-commerce platforms which account for 52 percent of their revenue, according to the study by logistics provider FedEx in 10 Asian markets with over 4,500 respondents. Read more »

Rise of robots fuels slavery threat for Asian factory workers

Kieran Guilbert, Thomson Reuters Foundation
Posted at Jul 12 08:10 AM

More than half of workers in Cambodia, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam and the Philippines - at least 137 million people - risk losing their jobs to automation in the next two decades, the United Nations' International Labor Organization says. Read more »

These 6 industries have the most job openings

Jessica Fenol, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jun 05 07:04 AM

Job seekers and college freshmen who are undecided over their career paths should consider these 6 industries that are poised to have the most openings and high salaries, according to recruitment portal Jobstreet.com. Read more »

Flatpack fear no more? Robot assembles IKEA chair frame

Reuters
Posted at Apr 19 10:21 AM

Robots in Singapore have completed a task many humans dread - assembling flat-packed IKEA furniture.   Read more »

VP Leni to employers: Invest in human resources amid looming shift to AI

Adrian Ayalin, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Apr 18 02:40 PM

Vice President Leni Robredo on Wednesday told employers to invest in human resource training to allow workers to cope with technological advancement in different industries. Read more »

BPO share in online job postings falls, AI influence seen

Jessica Fenol, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Apr 18 01:46 PM

Job openings for fresh graduates in the business process outsourcing sector have shrunk, with the rise of automation seen as among contributing factors, data from recruitment portal Jobstreet.com released on Wednesday showed. Read more »

Digital fluency makes women more 'profitable' in tech

Cathy Yang, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Mar 26 05:44 PM

Digital fluency is the key for women to bridge gender and pay gap in the technology space, an outsourcing company's technology lead said on Monday.   Read more »

Accenture banks on 'robust' training to future-proof IT-BPO workforce

Cathy Yang, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Mar 26 08:49 PM

Global outsourcing firm Accenture is focused on its “robust” training processes to upgrade the skills and future-proof its workforce amid the rising popularity of artificial intelligence, its country technology lead said.  Read more »

Displaced by robots, PH call center agents shift gears

Katrina Domingo, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 28 12:24 PM

Replaced by software, call center agent Ken Santo Domingo switched jobs and considered computer school to ride the automation wave that threatens to displace thousands in the outsourcing industry. Read more »

INSIGHT-Enter the robots: automation fills gaps in east Europe's factories

Gergely Szakacs, Reuters
Posted at Feb 07 09:54 PM

Companies across eastern Europe are ramping up investment in automation to cope with a labor shortage that started after the 2008 financial crisis and after final curbs were lifted in 2011 on worker flows to richer countries in the European Union. Read more »

PH should develop ‘ideal 21st century’ workforce to survive automation: economist

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 01 12:53 PM

Competition from other countries such as India and artificial intelligence threaten the Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) industry in the country. And to survive, the Philippines needs to produce a ‘highly trainable’ workforce with advanced critical thinking skills, an economist said Friday.    Read more »

UK to have driverless cars by 2021: govt

Agence France Presse
Posted at Nov 19 12:12 PM

British finance minister Philip Hammond is to announce £75 million ($99 million, 84 million euros) funding for Artificial Intelligence and plans to put driverless cars on UK roads by 2021, in his budget speech on Wednesday. Read more »

AI diversifies job opportunities in the IT space

Jessica Fenol, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Nov 07 07:08 PM

Human-AI integration has opened a lot of opportunities for medical practitioners to penetrate the world of information technology, a tech company chief said Tuesday.  Read more »

Students need shift in studies to keep up with automation trend: AI developer

Jess Fenol, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Nov 07 06:22 PM

While the business process outsourcing industry talks about retooling the workforce to ride the automation trend, there is a lack of expertise in artificial intelligence (AI) and related fields in the Philippines, an international AI developer said Tuesday. Read more »

PH gov't eyes automation to improve ease of doing business

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Nov 02 11:02 PM

As the Philippines slipped in this year's ease of doing business survey, Duterte's economic managers vowed to work together to improve the country's ranking. Read more »

Which jobs are at risk from automation?

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Oct 23 11:06 AM

The Philippines and the rest of Southeast Asia should retool their workforce to adapt to the approaching automation wave, the International Labor Organization said. Read more »

BPO workers bet on 'human touch' to ride automation wave

Jessica Fenol, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Oct 07 06:22 AM

Business process outsourcing workers said they were betting on the "human touch" to keep their jobs, as the industry looks towards artificial intelligence. Read more »

Hindi lang call center agents: Iba pang trabaho, nanganganib sa ‘automation’

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Oct 05 05:20 PM

Hindi lamang mga empleyado sa industriya ng Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) ang nanganganib mawalan ng trabaho sa inaasahang pag-unlad ng teknolohiya, kung hindi pati na rin ibang administratibong posisyon sa mga tradisyunal na organisasyon. Read more »

40,000 trabaho, delikado dahil sa BPO automation

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Aug 09 12:16 AM

Maaaring mawalan ng trabaho ang 40,000 low-skilled workers sa business process outsourcing industry dahil sa automation ngunit magbubukas naman ito ng bagong oportunidad para sa halos 700,000 higher-skilled workers.  Read more »