Half Of All Occupations Gone In Ten Years

According to this report, 50% of today's occupations will be gone in a decade:

A paradigm shift is expected to be witnessed in the way workplaces operate over the next 15 years, making nearly 50 per cent of occupations existing today redundant by 2025, a report has said.

Artificial intelligence will transform businesses and the work that people do. Process work, customer work, and vast swathes of middle management will simply disappear, it said.

The report titled 'Fast Forward 2030: The Future of Work and the Workplace' has been prepared by realty consulting firm CBRE and China-based Genesis, a property developer, after interviewing 220 experts, business leaders and young people from Asia, Europe and North America.

"Nearly 50 per cent of occupations today will no longer exist in 2025. New jobs will require creative intelligence, social and emotional intelligence, and ability to leverage artificial intelligence. Those jobs will be immensely more fulfilling than today's jobs," the report said.

Given the coming dramatic changes, companies will need to re-learn how to obtain high performance from employees and contractors, CBRE Asia Pacific Director of Workplace Strategy Peter Andrew opined.

http://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/50-of-occupations-today-will-no-longer-exist-in-2025-report-114110701279_1.html

"Immensely more fulfilling"? That would be nice.

Note that the report does not estimate how many of these fulfilling jobs might be created. I would guess that only a small fraction of the human population will ever get one.

So ... what will the rest of the 10 billion do with their lives?

You don't suppose that TPP and TTIP have anything to do with this, do you?