Automatizáció és kreativitás a munkavégzésben

The fear of job loss due to the labour-saving technological changes is rather old and dated back to the 19th century Luddites in Britain. Recently, similar fear reawakened due to the rapid expansion of the increasingly cheap and capable computers (digitisation). According to the empirical experiences of the European Working Condition Surveys (EWCS 2005 and 2015), every second workplace belongs into the category of ’creative work’, which is less threatened by automation; and every fourth worker carry out ’routine’ tasks, which will be easily excelled by computers. However, important country differences exist: creative jobs characterise higher than EU-27 average the Nordic, Continental and Anglo-Saxon countries, on the contrary, the highest rate of routine tasks prevail in the Mediterranean and in the Central and Eastern European countries. Hungary lags behind the European average and the tendencies of the last years are alarming