Millions in South East Asia to lose jobs to automation

Posted on 17 Jul 2016 by Michael Cruickshank

A new report by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) has predicted massive job losses in South East Asia due to increasingly automated manufacturing.

The study, which looks at trends for the coming two decades, shows that more than half of all manufacturing jobs in some countries in the region are at risk. All up, 56% of the workforce in Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand and the Philippines is at high risk of losing their jobs due to automation, a figure…

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