Job Automation Predictions from 2016 Silicon Valley Survey -

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. 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. Together with San Fransisco-based venture firm BootstrapLabs, we designed a simple survey that was handed out during their "Autonomous Corporation" event in November 2016. It is interesting to note all three groups of respondents considered business intelligence to be the business function with the most current automation potential.