McKinsey: Up to 45% of jobs could be automated
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“A McKinsey report estimates that up to 45% of work activities could be automated using current technologies.”
Summary
McKinsey’s analysis has estimated that roughly 45 % of work activities could be automated with technologies that are already demonstrated. This figure appears in the McKinsey report and is reiterated in later discussions of automation potential.
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- Automation Could Displace 800 Million Workers Worldwide By 2030, Study Says : All Tech Considered : NPR
Jobs that involve predictable, ... like paralegal work and accounting. However, McKinsey estimates less than 5 percent of jobs can be fully automated....
- Robot automation will 'take 800 million jobs by 2030' - report
The study of 46 countries and 800 occupations by the McKinsey Global Institute found that up to one-fifth of the global work force will be affected.
- The robots are coming – for as many as 800 million jobs | World Economic Forum
While McKinsey said that robots ... both developed and emerging economies will be affected. At least one-third of tasks could be automated in about 60% of jobs, which means substantial changes for employers and ...
- What percentage of work can actually be automated? - Sixteen Digits
Current research focuses on existing technology capabilities, but AI advancement continues accelerating. What McKinsey considers 45% automation potential today might reach 60% within two years as technology improves.
- McKinsey’s November 2025 Bombshell: 57% of Work Hours Already Automatable | by Angela Fisher | Medium
Bottom Line Up Front: On November ... displacement is theoretical or imminent. The finding: 57% of U.S. work hours could be automated with technologies that exist today....
- AI: Work partnerships between people, agents, and robots | McKinsey
We find that currently demonstrated technologies could, in theory, automate activities accounting for about 57 percent of US work hours today.2Our analysis focuses exclusively on paid productive hours in the US workforce, encompassing full-time ...
- How many of your daily tasks could be automated? | McKinsey
We find that, from a technical standpoint, work that occupies 45% of employee time could be automated by adapting currently available or demonstrated technology. However, less than 5% of jobs could be fully automated—that is, every activity ...
- Harnessing automation for a future that works | McKinsey
While much of the current debate about automation has focused on the potential for mass unemployment, people will need to continue working alongside machines to produce the growth in per capita GDP to which countries around the world aspire. Thus, our productivity estimates assume that people displaced by automation will find other employment.
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