TY - JOUR AU - Lester, Stan PY - 2020/06/26 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - New Technology and Professional Work JF - Professions and Professionalism JA - P&P VL - 10 IS - 2 SE - Essays DO - 10.7577/pp.3836 UR - https://journals.oslomet.no/index.php/pp/article/view/3836 SP - AB - <p>Until recently, the main effect of technology on professional or knowledge-based work has been to augment and expand it, partly as described in Autor, Levy and Murnane’s 2003 analysis.&nbsp; There are now increasingly instances of knowledge-based work being automated and substituted, developments that are more familiar from factory and basic administrative settings.&nbsp; Two widely-quoted studies, by Frey and Osborne (2013) and Susskind and Susskind (2015), point towards significant technology-driven job losses including in professional fields.&nbsp; Subsequent analyses indicate that while some occupations will disappear or be deskilled, others will be created.&nbsp; The argument made here is that the most significant effect will be occupational transformation, necessitating different types of skills in a net movement towards work that is more digitally-oriented but also complex, creative and value-based.&nbsp; These changes have implications that are already beginning to affect the way that professions are organised and how practitioners are educated and trained.</p> ER -