Workers at risk as robots set to replace 66m jobs, warns OECD

One in seven vulnerable employees in developed world least likely to be receiving help

The west's leading economic thinktank has warned its members that they are failing to prepare workers for an automation revolution that will leave 66 million people at risk of being replaced by machines in the coming years.

A new report by the Paris-based Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development found that the most vulnerable - one in seven workers on average across the 32 countries studied - were less likely to be receiving help than those whose jobs were more secure.

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