*Revolusi indoustri ke4 akan dilakukan oleh rezim neo-Mojopahit. Kapan
dilakukan revolusi industri pertama di NKRI? Kalau benar dilakukan revolusi
industri ke4, lantas bagaimana dengan pertumbuhan penduduk yang
menghasilkan teneaga kerja yang tidak dapat ditampung oleh revolusi
industri karena digitalisasi dan automatisasi dibidang industri?*

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The Straits Times-SkillsFuture Singapore Future of Work Will robots take
over our jobs?

Deloitte's Mr Indranil Roy says the likelihood of an entire profession
disappearing due to automation is "quite low".ST PHOTO: DIOS VINCOY JR

Published

Jun 18, 2018, 5:00 am SGT

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Companies are grappling with what the right balance between human and
machine should be

Amelia Teng <https://www.straitstimes.com/authors/amelia-teng>

Education Correspondent

With robots increasingly taking over jobs, including those that require
technical skills, it may be the "fuzzy" or soft skills that will save your
job.

The best workers need not just to be highly skilled, but must also learn to
work well in teams and think creatively, said Mr Indranil Roy, who heads a
centre that comes up with solutions for organisations to meet changing
workplace demands.

The Future of Work Centre of Excellence, set up by global consultancy
Deloitte in July last year and supported by the Economic Development Board,
has been studying market disruptions and work trends around the world.



The $27.6 million Singapore facility works with more than 30 clients here
and overseas. It serves as the global flagship, with all Deloitte offices
plugged into it.
AT RISK OF BEING AUTOMATED

About half of the work across all occupations is at risk of being automated
within the next five years, with technology that exists today, according to
the centre's research.

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   The Straits Times & SkillsFuture Singapore Future of Work Forum is
   organised in conjunction with the World Speaker Series.

   Date: July 3 ( Tuesday)

   Time: 10am to noon (Registration begins at 9am)

   Location: School of the Arts Singapore, Drama Theatre Level 2

   Admission is free. Refreshments and goodie bags provided. Limited seats
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   *1 in 2 *About half of the work across all occupations is at risk of
   being automated within the next five years, with technology that exists
   today.

   *90%* More than this percentage of net new jobs created in the last five
   years in the United States were "gig" jobs, referring to part-time,
   freelance or contract employees.

   *60%* Almost this percentage of Asia's working population are
   millennials, compared with about 40 per cent globally.

   *43%* Percentage of millennials who see themselves leaving their jobs
   within two years; only 28 per cent wanted to stay beyond five years.

But the likelihood of an entire profession disappearing because of
automation is "quite low", said Mr Roy who has advised clients across
sectors like financial services, information technology, government,
consumer and healthcare.





"It is far more likely that component parts of occupations will be enabled
by technology, thereby augmenting, not replacing the worker," he added.

The legal profession, for instance, can in the early stages be partly
automated with technologies that exist today such as natural language
processing and data wrangling, or cleaning up complex data.

"In the first two years in the legal profession, a lot of the work that you
do is in gathering data and information from different case laws, putting
that together into a meaningful report," he said.

In banks, similarly, technology can do a huge part of what analysts do, in
carrying out online research, analysing and crunching data, and organising
charts and graphs.

Mr Roy said companies are grappling with what the right balance between
human and machine should be, and how they can re-design the role of
employees to perhaps take on more tasks like advisory work or spending time
with clients.

It does not have to be a binary choice, as humans and computers can
complement each other, said the 47-year-old, who will be a speaker at an
upcoming The Straits Times & SkillsFuture Singapore forum on the future of
work.

The Straits Times is the media partner for the event on July 3 at the
School of the Arts Singapore. It will discuss how jobs are being reinvented
by robotics, artificial intelligence and the gig economy.

Mr Roy, an executive director in the human capital practice at Deloitte
Consulting based in Singapore, said the current wave of disruption is
different.

"The disruptions of the past were about displacing jobs that required
strength and human muscle power... So if you go to a factory today, most of
the work is done by robots," he said.

Today, technologies are becoming more cognitive and are displacing "brain
power" in the white-collar workforce, he said. Machines are getting better
at not just routine tasks but "structured problem-solving" and analysis, he
added.

"That's a red flag. If you're a young graduate, you need to be aware of
that."

Young people could pick up things like data science or learn how to code,
so that they could design and construct machines, he said.

But they should also focus on tasks that are best done by humans, such as
building relationships, showing empathy, mentoring and solving problems in
a bid to help humanity.

Tertiary institutions should also give more students opportunities to
innovate, try out new ways of doing things and be entrepreneurs, skills
that machines do not have, he said.
CHANGING EXPECTATIONS

A 9am to 5pm job, or full-time work as we know it, is also changing.

More than 90 per cent of net new jobs created in the last five years in the
United States were "gig" jobs, referring to part-time, freelance or
contract employees.

The trend is also seen here and in Asia, said Mr Roy, giving the example of
the creative media industry where a large amount of work is done by
freelancers.

"Increasingly you will see every industry move towards a mix of full-time
employees, part-time, freelance, more flexible employees and robots."

Mr Roy said there is also a greater shift towards letting people decide
where best to work, whether it is from offices or at home, in satellite
spaces or shared workspaces.

He added that this ties in with expectations of a millennial workforce
which values flexibility in the workplace, a key finding of a latest
Deloitte study of more than 10,000 millennials born between January 1983
and December 1994.

Companies are also trying to better attract and retain younger talent, he
said, as the workforce here and in the region is getting younger. Almost 60
per cent of Asia's working population are 28, compared with about 40 per
cent globally.

In the recent survey, 43 per cent of millennials see themselves leaving
their jobs within two years; only 28 per cent wanted to stay beyond five
years.

The respondents also said they sought help to build softer skills like
inter-personal skills and confidence, although employers did not always
meet these needs.

That is where Mr Roy's Future of Work centre comes in - to bridge these
gaps, help firms understand younger workers' changing expectations, and
find the right balance between human and machine.

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