14 Jobs That Could Be Automated In The Next 10 Years

Automation technology has been widely used in various workplaces, and many companies have benefited greatly from this rapidly developing technology. In the past, employees spent precious time on laborious, repetitive tasks, and now they can use automation technology to simplify these tasks.


The business world has also seen the power of automation. The question is "What will happen in the future?" For Forbes members of the Technology Committee who have been following new technology trends, the impact of future automation on work may not be what people expect.



1.Reminders, notifications, reports
I believe that with the development of workflow technology, any work related to supervision will be left to the robots. No one takes the time to manually generate a report, see who has lost their data, and send a reminder email to these employees requesting status updates. Automation technology has been around for a long time, but I think there is still a long way to go to reach human logic and capabilities.

2. Medical
The medical industry is a beneficiary of automation. As our population grows older, doctors and nurses are happy to help and ease the already overburdened medical system. Artificial intelligence will help radiologists find abnormalities more accurately, help surgeons to perform surgery more efficiently, and everyone can get the medical services they need through telemedicine and wearable devices.

3.Application development
Over the next five years, low-code / no-code technology will make everyone a developer. Users can develop applications and processes in a visual integrated development environment with drag and drop capabilities. Manual coding will still exist in the next five years, but we are moving in the distant direction of no coding



4. Translation
In the next decade, translation will become more and more automated. In the short term, translation software has performed equivalent to or better than most human translations. With the advancement of technology, companies will turn to translation technology when they need to translate foreign languages。




5.Maintenance

Automation is changing the way maintenance professionals work through more data-driven analysis. For example, we are seeing a shift from passive maintenance to active maintenance. Technology will not replace workers. In contrast, the new technology employed by the digital workforce will triple the productivity of workers and allow them to recognize their hard work.


6. Reception
Technology for self-check-in and direct contact with hosts has been around for a long time. It is only a matter of time before this technology is widely adopted worldwide. Digital kiosks, video chat, and authentication systems will eliminate the need for reception staff, and guests can enjoy a more personalized experience.

7. Primary sales
Advances in natural language processing, coupled with machine learning that can continuously optimize results as data grows, have created great opportunities for sales automation. The first are those simple, repetitive tasks, and the second is the prospecting of potential customers, the identification and communication of business opportunities (for example, arranging meetings), making primary sales work, especially sales extension work, at risk.

8.Customer service
Customer service and customer support are actually partially automated, and many companies use chatbots to respond to customer inquiries. These chatbots no longer sound like robots, and they are becoming more and more "realistic". So I think in five to ten years, customer service will be fully automated. ——Thomas Griffin, OptinMonster

9. Building construction
Although it may take 10 years or more, building construction will eventually be fully automated. Now construction sites are much safer than before, but not enough. Therefore, humans will be completely replaced by machines. We will only need to create a virtual model for the building target, input it into the construction robots, and then use these robots to carry out the construction, thereby avoiding injuries to the construction workers.

10. Writing
Writing is the basic form of human expression, so the idea of artificial intelligence to automate writing seems a bit far-fetched, but this idea has a long history. We invest a lot of money in AI content generation to create more objective, accurate, and compliant financial services / product review content. The application of this content automation technology is endless.




11.Predictable and repetitive tasks
In the next five to ten years, those predictable and repetitive tasks will be automated. For example, robots will replace customer service, and taxi and ride-sharing companies such as Uber and Lyft will also be replaced by self-driving cars.

12.Telemarketing and manual IT
In the near future, call centers and simple manual IT tasks will be automated. There are also high-level tasks that we may not have noticed that have been performed automatically by computer vision, such as automatic street cleaning, security monitoring, and department store inventory (robot inspections find free shelves). ——Robert Friday, Mist

13. Software Management
Many tasks today are "operational" tasks, such as DevOps, marketing operations, and sales operations, many of which involve daily manual tasks. In the future, software will replace daily manual "operational" tasks, leaving only strategic thinking tasks to humans.

14. Rule-based repetitive tasks
Millions of jobs have not disappeared, but are in transition, especially with a large number of rule-based, repetitive tasks. Take human resources as an example. Automation technology allows employees in the human resources department to reduce the time spent on archiving and copywriting. Instead, they use their skills, creativity, and intuition to enhance employee development, employee training, and employees. Satisfaction.