AI jobs plateau suggests we're embracing skills
The PwC AI Jobs Barometer, released on Tuesday, showed that after a big jump in job listings for AI-skilled workers between 2020 (12,000 listings) and 2021 (23,000), the number has been locked in a holding pattern in the years since.
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That means changing corporate taxes to promote investment, simplifying regulations, speeding up housing and energy approvals and ensuring AI adoption is not undermined by unnecessary regulation, among other suggestions. It comes as the commission prepares to release a series of reports detailing how Australia can get productivity moving again. "Australia should be a place where children born today can expect to live better and more prosperous lives than the generations who have come before them,'' Ms Wood said. "Productivity growth is essential to fulfilling that promise." But productivity growth has plummeted in recent years. How much Australia produces with the same amount of workers has grown at just under 0.4 per cent per year since 2015, compared with the 60-year average of 1.6 per cent. That's been caused in part by governments ignoring or minimising economic growth when making policy choices in recent years, according to a paper released by the commission. 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"These policies can deliver benefits for economic activity across the whole country and importantly ensure future generations aren't worse off."
