Information Age and it’s impact on jobs around the world

As we all know that our planet Earth is the only known planet in the

whole universe where life exists. Among these living beings on the

planet, there exist an intelligent species that we all know as Homo

sapiens, I am talking about humans, yes! Us. We, humans, have witnessed

different time period in history.

As we evolved from stone age to Industrial age and from there to information age we witnessed its impacts on economy and jobs.

The revolutionary invention of the internet was the start of the

information age, Information Age and it’s impact on jobs around the

world is huge. It made lives easier but with so many job cuts worldwide.

It’s not true at all, I agree to the point that it was responsible for

job cuts but it also created more jobs in the same industry. Life is all

about evolution. In order to survive we have to evolve, those who

evolved, survived.A report by McKinsey Global Institute stated that the Internet has a

sweeping impact on growth, prosperity and has ‘created 2.6 jobs for

every job that it has destroyed’.

“The Internet is a contributor to net job creation,” McKinsey Global

Institute said in its report, titled, ‘Internet matters: The Net’s

Sweeping Impact on Growth, Jobs, and Prosperity’.

“While jobs have been destroyed by the emergence of the Internet,

much more have been created during the same period, including jobs

directly linked to the Internet, such as software engineers and online

marketers as well as more traditional jobs — logistics to deliver online

purchases,” it added.

Internet gave rise to video portals like youtube, that allowed any

user to upload a video and share it with the world. This created demand

for creative video content, in turn creating more jobs for video

editors, sound engineers, directors, editors, writers, music artists,

etc.

Similarly, it also gave rise to social media platforms like Facebook,

WhatsApp, Google+, Instagram, Snap chat, etc.  As these platforms

allowed people to connect with each other and promote their business and

create events and what not, people were in need of creative artists,

social media managers, content writers, illustrators, Actors, graphic

designers, etc.