IT department and labor market

[tracey77]

Guys, have you ever thought about how IT development affected labor market? I mean so many new jobs were created because of that, like social media specialist or CEO. There are and more marketing agencies, new mobile applications are needed, someone has to do that. Few years ago I wouldn't think that there will such professions like today

[semobo]

Guys, have you ever thought about how IT development affected labor market? I mean so many new jobs were created because of that, like social media specialist or CEO. There are and more marketing agencies, new mobile applications are needed, someone has to do that. Few years ago I wouldn't think that there will such professions like today

It created so many job opportunities but world population increased so much compared to the available employment which makes lot of graduates to be still unemployed especially if they are from third world countries.Service sector may not be enough for everyone to give jobs it must be manufacturing or world will be in chaos.

[Artemis3]

And at the same time several jobs stopped, simply because technology advances made them obsolete. For example automation, you could replace manual labor with robots, but someone has to program, maintain and repair such robots, which happen to work 24/h a day.

Of course, you need far less technicians and engineers that the previous manual labor, so all those people spread looking jobs elsewhere.

Consider this: cars are very soon going to drive by themselves. This is going to put and end to, say, truckers. Later the same will occur to planes, pilots won't be needed anymore, etc.

There is also remote monitoring and controlling, perhaps one person (operator?) will be needed to watch over a fleet of self driven ships, trucks, planes, whatever. And programmers for perfecting and improving their AI, and the IT people to enable everything.

Some think AI can learn to program by itself and the days of the programmer are numbered, this is also something worth considering. Perhaps good enough robots can do all the IT job later.


But now, well its a nice option, if it tedious at times.

[boyptc]

Innovation and technology created a lot of jobs for professionals and that's why this industry is becoming bigger and bigger each year. It's an unstoppable thing for disruptive technologies.

But on the other hand, we can't see the other implications that it made because we only see the good ones.

[Naida_BR]

Guys, have you ever thought about how IT development affected labor market? I mean so many new jobs were created because of that, like social media specialist or CEO. There are and more marketing agencies, new mobile applications are needed, someone has to do that. Few years ago I wouldn't think that there will such professions like today

CEOs exist lots of years before the advent of the new technological innovations.
Indeed, a lot of jobs have been created as new departments have been created that are vital for the lifetime of a company.