With 1.5 Million UK Workers Slated to Lose Their Jobs to Automation, Calls for a Shorter Work Week Intensify

On Monday, the UK's Office of Data and Statistics released a report that found 1.5 million of that nation's workers are at "high risk" of losing their jobs to automation. "In 2017, out of the 19.9 million jobs analysed in England, 7.4% people were employed in jobs at high risk of automation," the report notes. Women...