Executive summary Much of the recent debate on the future of jobs has focused on generative artificial intelligence (genAI), large language models and their impact on white- collar desk-based occupations, yet technology- driven labour market change is transforming occupations beyond this space. This white paper considers four key technologies: artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, energy technology, and networks and sensing technologies. It assesses the potential benefits and challenges of their accelerating application across seven job families that comprise the world’s largest workforces: agriculture, manufacturing, construction, wholesale and retail trade, transport and logistics, business and management, and healthcare. The white paper finds that the potential benefits and challenges differ significantly across these seven workforces, as well as an economy’s income level and industrial make-up. This means several aspects are necessary to ensure technology development leads to higher-productivity jobs, including enabling greater investment in technology and enhancing diffusion, facilitating efficient and supportive market structures, understanding employers’ strategic workforce goals, and discovering the potential capability of a technology-enabled workforce. The Global Future Council on Jobs and Frontier Technologies is a multidisciplinary expert group exploring how technological progress can create higher productivity jobs and prepare a global workforce to perform them. In accordance with its mandate, this white paper identifies key areas where stakeholder actions are most likely to be impactful. The remainder of the council’s term will seek to identify specific actions that economies, industries, technology developers, employers and other key stakeholders can take to enable a high-productivity, inclusive future of jobs that benefits businesses, workers and enhances global opportunity.Technology is transforming workforces; ensuring high-productivity, inclusive jobs requires diverse actions across the world’s largest job families. Jobs of Tomorrow: Technology and the Future of the World’s Largest Workforces 3

Jobs of Tomorrow Technology and the Future of the Worlds Largest Workforces 2025