Robots will take HALF of jobs in UK’s poorest areas, study reveals

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Low-wage jobs are most at risk, as are female and ethnic minority workers who tend to be employed in them more, the IPPR think tank’s report found. The lower earning North East and Northern Ireland are the two regions with the highest number of posts deemed to have “a high technical potential for automation”.

In both, it is estimated that robots could one day carry out 48 per cent of all jobs there.But in prosperous London, which is least at risk, the figure drops to just 39 per cent of posts.

Clever machines also have the potential to significant boost the nation’s economy by hiking productivity.In total, it is estimated that robots will save £290bn a year in wages, which is 33 per cent of overall national salary bill.

The IPPR found automation could raise productivity growth by 1.4 per cent a year, boosting GDP by 10 per cent by 2030.But ministers must act quickly to ensure areas where jobs are lost are not left behind and cash saved by robots is ploughed back into reskilling workers for new roles, the think tank found.

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