Forbes India: Senior Director at Cognizant’s Center for the Future of Work Outlines Principles to Stay Employed Over the Next 10 Years

“The concerns of AI taking over jobs are understandable, as advances in the technology are now seen at work everywhere,” writes Manish Bahl. “When machines do everything, many wonder what will be left for us to do. Amid all these pessimistic predictions of job losses, we can also see an entirely positive vision of the future if we carefully read the top trends and facts.” Excerpts:

“Built on a solid foundation of interpreting how change occurs and how humans evolve, here are six principles that would form the base of tomorrow’s jobs landscape:

1. Work has always changed and will continue to change.

2. Lots of current work is awful and people have to be liberated from them to do more fulfilling, more enjoyable, more lucrative work.

3. Machines need humans; there will always be new jobs to do. Machines can do more, but there is always more to do — that almost always needs humans! To imagine otherwise is to fall into the realm of science-fiction extrapolation.

4. Never underestimate human imagination or ingenuity. In an age of intelligent machines, humans will continue to want to explore — and make — what’s next. Doing so will be the source of new work ad infinitum.

5. Technology will upgrade all aspects of the society. Technology — which is still, in truth, peripheral to many aspects of our work and our lives — is set to become central to how we do everything and, in the process, make the services and experiences we want much, much better. And, in doing so, it will also impact how we occupy our time.

6. Technology solves and creates new problems. Intelligent machines will address many problems in society, but in doing so, will also create new problems that should be addressed by people, work that they will monetize.

In the future, work will change, but won’t go away. Wrenching transformations, which is what the future of work holds for us all, are never easy, but have to be taken astride for our collective progress.”

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