
Do the preparation task first. Then read the text and tips and do the exercises.
Tips
- It is helpful to start with a more general statement before narrowing it down to talking about a specific example, e.g. technological advancements will continue to change the workplace → one such technology is RPA.
- Use clauses to show if a change is going to happen:
- over a period of time, e.g. As technological innovations continue to change the workplace, ... / With more industries starting to embrace RPA software, ...
- at some point in the future, e.g. when automation fully takes over, ...
- Connect new paragraphs to what was previously written in order to achieve better cohesion, e.g. With this shift in focus, ... / The ability to adapt and be agile would also be essential ... / By equipping our future generation of workers with such business skills, ...
- When talking about future trends, use a variety of phrases to show the different levels of probability of things happening, e.g. to be likely to, to have the potential to, to be expected to, to be bound to.
- Conclude with a summary of the main points of your article.
Discussion
Language level
Advanced: C1
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The place we are expected to work in the future will be likely to have more automatic machines doing repetitive, mundane works. Those technologies are not only able to free up employees from menial jobs but also make cheaper, higher class products more than the time when they are not equipped. That means these employees are going to have more time to develop their own skills, work less, do multitasks, and enjoy their lives with full high class products outside. However, with low skill, not agile, and old employees, if they are not going to be willing to learn, there will be some struggles which will push them out of workforce in case of the worst scenario. I trust the such scenario is not potential to happen in developed countries where are having good education, managerial mechanism and critical researches.
To thrive in the future, I think the workforce need to develop some business skills which can't be done by machines themselves. The robots can work more exactly or productive, but they can not trouble shoot themselves so that they need help from the employees. Moreover, by the process of using the robots, the employees can think how to upgrade them more efficiently for their works. Another thing that can't be done by machines is personal issues. How could a machine understand nuances of customers' smiles or tackle with employees' troubles? Can it be programmed to deal with a thousand of subtle personal situations in lives? Well, maybe the answer is no, so that is the time for the employees sparkling on stages.
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Rereading the reading text, I saw that I just somehow mainly rephrased it.
Practice writing, anyway. :)