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Financial services jobs at risk of automation

BY ALEX DUNNIN | TUESDAY, 1 MAR 2016 12:26PM

A new report released by the CSIRO predicts that 44% of jobs currently performed by Australian workers are at risk of automation, especially routine jobs within the services industry such as in the financial sector.

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