Automation, jobs and computer careers
Automation means machines and computers doing work people once did. It makes work faster and cheaper, with less human intervention, but some jobs shrink while new computer jobs grow. Paper 1 asks who looks after a company’s website most years: the webmaster, now usually called the web developer.
By the end of this page you can
- Weigh job losses against productivity gains
- Explain how automation affects skilled and unskilled jobs
- Describe what each computer professional does
- Match a task to the right job
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Robots weld what teams of welders once did by hand. Someone still has to program and repair them.
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