International Labour Organisation (ILO) director-general Guy Ryder is less concerned about jobs being lost to technology than the challenges in re-skilling workers so they can function in the new economy.
"It will be the task of getting people from the jobs they're doing today to the ones they'll be doing in the future. And that is a question of skilling," he said.
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