Job Automation Predictions from 2016 Silicon Valley Survey – BootstrapLabs

This article was originally published on http://techemergence.com/ and it s the result of a collaboration between BootstrapLabs and Techemergence. Job automation predictions from an individual expert typically draw from years of academic research experience, or time "in the trenches" of industry. With growing interest and speculation on the job market of the next decade, we set out to garner a perspective as to what Silicon Valley thinks about the possibilities of automations in various business tasks. We wanted to know – what work functions have the most potential for near-term automation? In the infographics and article below, we explore the survey responses from nearly 80 Bay Area investors, founders, and tech folks – on which business functions have the greatest potential for automation today, and in the coming five years ahead.