Reply To: What impact will the IoT have on future jobs and how can we prepare the workforce?

[Abhishek]

1. The IoT economy will lead to the emergence of new hybrid verticals (for example, on the edge of IT and medicine, IT and energy, robotics and agriculture).
2. New categories of jobs will emerge because of the IoT. Designers of medical robots, personified medical device consultants, grid modernization managers, intermodal transportation network engineers are the kind of professions that will likely be on the rise in the near future.
3. This is the category of jobs that will perhaps be computerized sooner than any other. In particular, low-skill and repetitive jobs that have so far resisted automation will be replaced by technology.
4. New jobs, especially those requiring software development, data analytics and quantitative skills, will be created to support products and services enabled by the IoT economy.
5. Professions that might be comparatively spared by the IoT economy in the next decade include jobs in which human attributes such as creativity, intuitiveness and empathy play a large part.