ILO Director-General Guy Ryder
“I am a graduate who worked in one of the multinational firms in Lagos, as a factory worker. We are over 500 working in the factory but many of us were later disengaged because the company deployed some automated machines to execute their jobs. I am back into the labour market looking for another job.”
This is the experience of Jude Makwe, as expressed to The Guardian in a chat recently speaking on change in the organisation where he worked as a factory attendant. This expression is now a singsong amongst many Nigerians that lost their jobs to the emergence of automation in the workplace.Automation is now emerging as a real threat to jobs worldwide.
Indeed, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is already transforming the world of work, but the future is…
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