Millennials do not fear robots at work

Millennials do not fear robots at work

Most workers do not believe "in any way" that a computer can replace him in his current job

   According to the International Federation of Robotics there are currently around 1.5 million industrial robots. Several American reports that the presence of a robot equals the destruction of 5.6 jobs.

By 2025, the International Federation of Robotics predicts that there will be a total of six million robots in the world of work. Data that have alarmed many sectors of the population, but that the vast majority of Spaniards, according to a survey by Sigma Dos for Cotec, assume it with optimism

   According to the survey, 64% of the Spanish active population (those who have a job or seek it) feel qualified to compete in an increasingly automated and technological labor market. The biggest differences in the answers have to do with the level of training and with age.

76% of those with higher education are prepared for this new labor market, for only 45% of those who do not pass primary school. Similarly, confidence grows up to 73% among those under 30, the so-called millennials, and on the other hand it drops to 55% among those over 45.

    The study also reflects greater confidence in their own abilities in the face of the challenge of employment in a technological framework among male workers (68%) than among female workers (64%). Men are also more convinced that "no way" a machine can replace him in his current job (53% vs. 48% women and 51% overall average)

Within that 34% of the active population that does not consider itself capable of competing in the new scenario, 51% claim their inability to adapt as a reason (62% as of 45 years) and 40% claim economic reasons.

67% of Spaniards think in the Cotec survey that many or many current jobs will be performed by robots or computers within 15 years, although 52% trust that those jobs will be compensated for the creation of new ones.

At the same time, 34% of respondents believe that machines will perform not only routine tasks, but also creative tasks. 56% believe that technology will increase social inequality and only 45% expect it to reduce the labor gap between men and women (confidence drops to 41% among women, by 50% among men).