STUDY: Half of Las Vegas workers have high risk of automation – KLAS – 8 News Now

LAS VEGAS (KLAS) A recent study predicts thousands of local jobs could vanish to automation and it says Las Vegas has the nations highest percentage of workers at high risk of being replaced by technology.

The hospitality industry is already embracing technology such as the kiosks at restaurants, robots serving food, automated check-in procedures at hotels and more.

The study by Commodity.com says more than 49% of Las Vegas workers are at a high risk of automation, while 42% of all U.S. workers face the same risk. The study says gaming dealers have a probability of automation of 96%.

While the idea of automation isnt new, the pandemic has accelerated a lot of technology in the workforce.

Irene Bustamante Adams, the deputy director and chief strategy officer for Workforce Connections offers this advice.

We know that automation is coming, its here, its even going to get more accelerated over the next couple of years. So if youre a job seeker, the concern should be what kind of skills do I need to learn? How do I take what I know now and upscale?'

Automation is more likely to impact lower-skilled jobs that involve repetition. Even so, it doesnt sit well with some jobseekers.

I think its absolutely a crime because. Its just putting a lot of us who would like to work out of jobs. Also, you want us to do it and then the machines dont work, said Lynn Beamer, who is looking for a job.

Researchers behind the study looked at the latest data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and the University of Oxford.

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