Major shift to job automation could be big news in unexpected quarters

A robot at the Mobile World Congress 2019 in Barcelona, Spain

A robot at the Mobile World Congress 2019 in Barcelona, Spain Source: AAP

New research has estimated that nearly half the activities in Australian workplaces will start to become automated by the year 2030.


The report says a shift towards automation could trigger the next big boom for the nation's economy, but only if our most vulnerable workers are accounted-for during the transition


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