The robots have been taking over at supermarket tills, call centres and bank counters — now they are coming for the jobs of the middle classes.
The author of a groundbreaking study warning that 35% of jobs in the UK were at risk has now analysed which jobs commanding pay of more than £40,000 are most at threat — and which are the least likely to disappear.
Carl Frey, co-director of the Oxford Martin programme on technology and employment at Oxford University, said: “While low-skilled jobs are most exposed to automation over the forthcoming decades, a substantial number of middle-income jobs are equally at risk.”
In greatest danger in the next decade or two are an array of jobs that used to be regarded as