CNN: 375 Million Jobs May Be Automated in 2030, Study Suggests

The global workforce could see a significant change in the next fifteen years. According to a recent CNN article and McKinsey Global Institute report , as many as 375 million jobs could be automated by 2030 forcing workers to switch their occupations. Jobs that entail preparing fast food and operating machinery are the most at risk of being replaced by automation. Next, data collection and processing seen in mortgage origination, paralegals, accounts and back-office processing could be affected.

"The model where people go to school for the first 20 years of life and work for the next 40 or 50 years is broken," said Susan Lund, a partner for the McKinsey Global Institute and co-author of the report. "We're going to have to think about learning and training throughout the course of your career."

The authors added that this may mean a massive transition for our workforce that the country has not seen since work shifted from farms to factories in the 1900s. But as long as workers are willing to learn new skills and use their people skills, new jobs should be available.