AUTOMATION could make the jobs of retail pharmacists obsolete within a decade, according to an analysis from Australian workforce data and analytics platform Faethm by Pearson.
The company has looked at "billions of data points to make predictions about the future of jobs and skills," according to a report in today's Financial Review, highlighting a range of professions whose jobs could be replaced by robotic processes in the future.
Finance brokers topped the list with a stated 59% "risk of task automation" while retail pharmacists came in 13th position with a 33% rating - behind pilots (37%), retail managers (36%) and medical scientists (35%).
Hospital pharmacists were further down the list with a 27% rating, while other roles at risk included librarians (51%) and financial advisors (44%).
Faethm by Pearson's chief data scientist, Richard George, was quoted as saying the company's technology helped "determine what jobs are really at risk of automation...and the big thing is anything to do with routine tasks".
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