Tech progress, automation, AI, cut workers’ share of wealth: ILO

The global trend for shrinking pay packets in heavily industrialized economies could be driven – at least temporarily - by tech innovations in the workplace such as automation and AI, the UN International Labour Organization, ILO, said on Wednesday.

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Tech progress, automation, AI, cut workers’ share of wealth: ILO

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