Automation drives down costs, improves agility and makes new business models practical, with a potential upside of more than tenfold improvement in efficiency. The elephant in the room, however, remains the immediate association with job replacement and the resulting rise in socio-economic gaps.
The Forum’s Future of Jobs Report 2025 examines how broadening digital access is affecting the world of work – and looks at the fastest growing and declining job roles.
A global automation programme guides factory-scale adoption and use-case sharing, governed by central and local digital transformation offices, with plans to establish a lighthouse factory for each product group.
AI is both an opportunity and a challenge for businesses, as outlined in the World Economic Forum's Global Risks Report 2025. The technology is rapidly reshaping CFOs' role by offering new opportunities in automation, data analytics and risk management. Six CFOs from different industries and regions offer their insights and reflections below on how financial leaders are approaching AI.
By being focussed on repetitive administrative tasks, AI agents can free up skilled workers to focus on jobs like decision-making, creativity and strategy.
The future of jobs in the age of AI, sustainability and deglobalization The sectors most exposed to AI Financial services is the sector with the highest potential exposure to AI automation and augmentation, according to the report. IT and digital communications are also high on the list, along with the media, entertainment and sports industry.
Technological change, geoeconomic fragmentation, economic uncertainty, demographic shifts and the green transition – individually and in combination are among the major drivers expected to shape and transform the global labour market by 2030. The Future of Jobs Report 2025 brings together the perspective of over 1,000 leading global employers—collectively representing more than 14 million ...
Heavy industry is one of the last frontiers of automation, but a new centre shows how robotics and AI can reshape how we build physical infrastructure.
Universal automation is the world of “plug and produce” automation software components that solve specific customer problems in a proven way. Think of it as the dawn of an industrial automation app store. The technology already exists to make it possible.
What is intelligent automation? Intelligent automation is a combination of methods involving people, organizations and also technologies involving machine learning. Intelligent automation is aimed at automating end-to-end business processes on computers.
