It’s impossible to overstate the profound impact of computer technology on employment trends and workforce structure in the modern economy. Thinking back as recently as the 1980s, the same decade in which computer use in the U.S. went from just over a quarter of the workforce to nearly half according to a study by Princeton economist Alan Krueger, career fields such as computer programming scarcely existed, yet workers also completed jobs that have today been automated by computers. Computers impact employment by both creating and destroying jobs, but, more than anything, by changing the nature of the jobs available. Writer Bio
