[stevetrewick]

Nitpick :

>OECD Working Papers should not be reported as representing the official views of the OECD or of its member countries.

And yet they always are.

Numbers wise, even if Frey and Osborne's supposedly apocalyptic numbers are correct that's 47% job destruction over 20+ years, or roughly 2.35% per annum. Since we already destroy between 10% and 15% [0] of jobs annually (depending on where you are and who's doing the measuring) this really doesn't represent that big a shift. Given some of this is likely due to automation anyway, the lower figures given in this paper would barely register.

[0] http://econweb.umd.edu/~haltiwan/c12451.pdf