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Ever since the COVID-19 pandemic started, a lot of attention has been given to the effects of technology in helping people do their work. Like more people using Zoom or Slack to communicate so that they don't have to go into the office.
But these office workers who can keep doing their work remotely tend to be doing pretty high-skilled jobs, jobs that require college degrees, and pay pretty well. But the use of these same technologies might end up having long-lasting, and underappreciated, effects on other workers—people who do lower-paid jobs, which often don't require a college degree. And that has not gotten as much attention.
Today on the show, a chat with Elisabeth Reynolds, who leads the Task Force on the Work of the Future at MIT. Along with the labor economist David Autor, she just finished a new report on the four consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic for the labor market—and specifically the consequences for lower-paid work.
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The Link LonkJuly 29, 2020 at 05:32AM
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