An employment upheaval may be in store, with automation charting the course

It's predicted that automation will have a huge effect on the future of work, disrupting how U.S. companies recruit, hire and train workers, Axios reports. And without a national policy on automation's impact on jobs, or the duration of flat wages and future joblessness, businesses and municipalities across the country are trying to prepare for the possible takeover of hundreds of thousands of jobs, says Axios. Recent reports reveal that 338,000 jobs are at risk in Indianapolis (35% of the workforce there), 650,000 in Phoenix and 40,000 in northeastern Ohio. Officials in all three cities are identifying the jobs facing the greatest risk, the skills that will be most in demand and ways to organize industry and education in a new economy, says Axios.