Will a Robot Take Your Job?

The Chart of the Week is a weekly Visual Capitalist feature on Fridays. Are you ready to hand your job over to R2D2? A recent study by the Mckinsey Global Institute forecasts up to 800 million workers worldwide could lose their jobs to automation by 2030. Industrial machine operators, administrators, and service workers will be the first to take a hit. Meanwhile, poorer countries with lower investment in tech are less likely to feel the pinch. Today's chart uses data from the Future of Jobs Report 2018 by the World Economic Forum to take a peek at the changes technology will bring over the next four years.