A report published by US-based research firm, HfS Research says, about 7 lakh low skilled workers in BPO and IT sectors in India are most likely to lose their jobs because of automation and artificial intelligence.

This latest tech news might be shocking to many; however it is not a bad news for everyone, this report also predicts that this period will also see a rise in medium and high skilled jobs.

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The world is rapidly adopting and shifting to automation and artificial intelligence due to which it is predicted that the dependency on low skilled labour is expected to decline. The report further states that the number of low skilled workers in the field of IT and BPO is expected to fall from 2.4 million in 2016 to 1.7 in 2022.

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However the good news is that the number of medium skilled jobs is expected to increase from 900,000 to 1 Million by 2022 and the number of high skilled jobs from 320000 in 2016 to 510000 in 2022. This trend seems to reflect globally as well, since low skilled IT jobs are expected to decrease by 31 percent and medium and high skilled jobs to increase by 13 and 57 per cent respectively.

The report further states that the Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is being developed rapidly to eliminate routine jobs. The emergence of RPA could eventually end the requirement for high-throughput, high intensity jobs, since it would be easy for enterprises and service providers to effectively apply and adopt these technologies effectively. The report also stated that managing for 5 years could be handled but in the next five years the impact on labour could become much more challenging.

However while entry level coding could see a major cut, there could be a demand in skills for dealing with robotics, artificial intelligence, nano technology, biotech, smart technologies etc. The President of Nasscom R Chandrashekhar said that although there may job losses due to automation but it could also provide various new job opportunities in different sectors.

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