This publication reviews the significant technological issues our workforce will face and considers what needs to be done to ensure we develop industries, skills and jobs for a future that is still largely unknown.
Modelling in this report has found that almost five million Australian jobs – around 40 per cent of the workforce – face the high probability of being replaced by computers in the next 10 to 15 years.
Downloadable resources
REPORT: AUSTRALIA’S FUTURE WORKFORCE? (PDF 6966KB) MEDIA RELEASE (MEDIA RELEASE)CEDA's major research report for 2015, Australia's future workforce? focuses on what jobs and skills we need to develop to ensure our economy continues to grow and diversify.
Discussion around jobs often focuses on the here and now. However, if Australia is to maintain a robust economy that is internationally competitive, we must plan now for the changes, challenges and opportunities we face in developing the right jobs and skills for future generations.
In this report, CEDA examines:
- How the next wave of the industrial revolution will fundamentally reshape business activity;
- The high probability that 40 per cent of Australia’s workforce, more than five million people, could be replaced by automation within the next 10 to 20 years;
- Changes that will occur in the five key sectors identified in the Federal Government's innovation plan;
- Jobs of the future and exporting and outsourcing opportunities;
- How businesses operating on the technological frontier are adapting;
- What digital disruption means to existing business practices; and
- What policy levers are available to maximise opportunities.
Report launch and events
| Digital disruption and Australia's future workforce Report launch, Melbourne, 16 June 2015 | Australia's future workforce - Generation Next Sydney, 19 June 2015 |
| CEDA research report - Australia's future workforce Adelaide, 18 June 2015 | Vice Chancellors panel: Australia's future workforce Brisbane, 26 June 2015 |
| Future work: skills, productivity and innovation Gold Coast, 18 June 2015 | Australia's future workforce Perth, 27 July 2015 |
Launch and event highlights
Report chapters and authors
Section 1: Global trendsChapter 1.1 Chapter 1.2 Section 2: Australian stocktakeChapter 2.1 | Section 3: The future workerChapter 3.1 Section 4: Policy responseChapter 4.1
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