Quite the most pleasing news in recent months has been the announcement by Amazon that it is to spend more than $800,000 a year on a programme to improve the skills level of one third of its huge staff.
The reason, of course, is that the robots are coming and they will replace workers who perform manual and rather dull jobs. Instead of putting money aside for retrenchments, Amazon has decided to invest in its own employees to prepare them for the fourth industrial revolution where the demand will be for high-level skills in engineering, IT and medical care...
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