A McKinsey report found that women are 1.5 times more likely than men to need to change occupations by 2030 due to automation.
- Women are overrepresented in lower-wage, customer service and office jobs most at risk of automation.
- Blacks people will also be disproportionately impacted as food and production jobs decline.
- At least 12 million workers will need to change occupations by 2030, in part due to the push for net zero emissions.
- Lower wage workers are up to 14 times more likely to change jobs compared to higher paid workers.
- Lawyers, teachers, financial advisers and architects will see changes to how their jobs are done due to AI, but not large-scale job losses.
- Around 3.5 million jobs could be lost due to decarbonization efforts but offset by 700,000 new jobs in renewables.
- Construction jobs will increase by 12% from 2022 to 2030 due to infrastructure spending and energy transition demands.
- If job changes are managed well, productivity could rise to 3% to 4% annual growth from the current 1%.