Stop focusing just on startups: Digitalization of U.S. workforce impacts every industry, report finds
Brookings Institution report finds broad technological shifts in the workplace, akin to another ?Industrial Revolution,? and cities should take note When Mark Muro, a senior fellow and researcher at the Brookings Institution, began studying how digitization and technology are changing our economy, he expected to find the high-tech industry leading this shift. He didn?t expect to find technological change is a much broader wave reshaping the entire U.S. economy.
?I came in thinking this would lead to much more emphasis on coding, and clearly there?s a need for coding,? he says. ?But there?s also a whole lot more jobs using everyday software packages and enterprise software. That?s the leading edge of change right now.?
Digitization and the American Workforce, released today by the Brookings Institutions?s Metropolitan Policy Program, found evidence of a broad-based shift. Co-authored by Muro, Sifan Liu, Jacob Whiton, and Siddharth Kulkarni, the report found that between 2002 and 2016, the number of jobs with high digitalization scores tripled, from 4.8 to 23 percent of the workforce, while the number of jobs that has low digital scores plummeted, dropping from 55.7 to 29.5 percent. It?s no news technology is changing society, but the scope of the shift suggests education and local economic development initiatives aren?t keeping pace.
Brookings Institution
More importantly, that shift towards jobs with a high degree of digital skills is accelerati...
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