“We must stop imagining robots against humans”
Isabelle Chappuis is an economist and director of the Swiss Center for Positive Futures at the HEC Faculty of UNIL. She recently published a book on the future of work, starting with HR. She tells.
–The future of work according to Meta (Facebook), which showed a virtual universe, the metaverse, where avatars of robots and humans work together.
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You have just written a book on the work of the future. Can you tell me which profession is going to disappear?
I’m a futurist, but I don’t make predictions. I highlight all the futures and dilemmas to come, so that we can make better informed choices. But don’t ask me if plumbers or cashiers are going to disappear. There are algorithms that make this kind of prognosis, but it’s still very tricky, because the future is not a linear projection of the present, let alone the past. That said, you still have to ask yourself questions, for example about the future of sales jobs, because this sector is largely disrupté not only by the health crisis, but also by digitization and the evolution of behavior. Gold the sales sector is chosen by 24% of young people in apprenticeship today, and these are people who’we send to the box «stress».
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