Public is broadly supportive of workforce automation being limited to "dangerous and dirty" jobs

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April 5, 2019

How Americans see automation and the workplace in 7 charts

Public is broadly supportive of workforce automation being limited to “dangerous and dirty” jobs

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Public is broadly supportive of workforce automation being limited to “dangerous and dirty” jobs

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How Americans see automation and the workplace in 7 charts
Young adults especially likely to have been impacted by workforce automation
Partisan split on government’s duty to help workers displaced by machines
Americans view certain professions as being at greater risk of automation than others
Most say workplace automation will lead to more economic inequality
Public says robots will take over much of the work done by humans, but most workers don’t think it will affect their own type of work
On balance, public says automation has done more harm than good for U.S. workers

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