Its latest survey of 4.2 million US businesses includes questions on additive manufacturing (otherwise known as 3D printing), industrial and service robots, automated guided vehicles (AGVs), and autonomous mobile robots (AMR). The rise of new occupations driven by evolving technologies prompted the US Census Bureau to update its 2022 Economic Census survey questions. Countries without effective, age-inclusive occupational transition assistance strategies and programs will risk seeing many of their most critical new jobs go unfilled.Įven as new artificial intelligence (AI) applications dominate headlines, other technological advancements are also creating new industries and jobs. The combination of a growing number of new occupations and demographic shifts towards an older workforce suggests a greater need for helping workers reskill and retrain for new jobs throughout their careers. Moreover, worker's likelihood of changing occupations tends to decline with age. Yet, while these changes can open up opportunities for workers, history has shown that the wide-scale transition of workers into burgeoning new fields that require new skills is often difficult.
With today's growing number of tech breakthroughs, this is truer than ever. Technological advances have always given rise to new industries and occupations.
