Automation and the future of work Contents

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Contents

Summary

1 Introduction

Automating Work

The Impact of Automation

Our Inquiry

2 Automation Adoption

Productivity

Global Comparators

Robot Strategy

3 Automating UK Businesses

Reindustrialisation

Barriers to Automating

Made Smarter

SMEs

4 Automation and the Industrial Strategy

UK as a World Leader

Government Action

Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund

Commercialising Innovation

Robot Taxes and Incentives

Regulation

5 Research and Innovation

Incubators and Catapults

Recruiting Researchers

Collaboration

6 Workers

Automating Jobs

Who is at risk?

Employee Engagement

Skills and Retraining

7 Conclusions: The Future of Work

Predicting the Future

Working Together

Annex: Visit to Japan

Conclusions and recommendations

Formal minutes

Witnesses

Published written evidence

List of Reports from the Committee during the current Parliament

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Published: 18 September 2019