One in Three Jobs Converted to Software and Robots by 2025
Gartner, 2014: 'One in Three Jobs Will Be Converted to Software, Robots and Smart Machines by 2025'
The research firm opened its 2014 Symposium with a forecast that machines would take a third of jobs within eleven years. US payrolls added 2.2 million jobs in 2024 alone.
What was said
“Gartner predicts one in three jobs will be converted to software, robots and smart machines by 2025”
— Peter Sondergaard (research director, Gartner) · said Oct 7, 2014 · due By 2025
2025 arrived with US unemployment at 4.1% and payroll employment up 2.2 million over 2024, per the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The Story
Said at Gartner's Symposium/ITxpo in Orlando, Florida, in October 2014. Sondergaard: 'New digital businesses require less labor; machines will make sense of data faster than humans can,' and 'Knowledge work will be automated.' Computerworld called it 'Gartner being provocative, as it typically is'.
BLS, January 10, 2025: total nonfarm payroll employment 'increased by 256,000 in December, and the unemployment rate changed little at 4.1 percent.' Other jobs forecasts: hinton-radiologists-2021, amodei-ai-jobs-2030, kai-fu-lee-jobs-2034.
Receipts
- Smart robots will take over a third of jobs by 2025, Gartner says - PBS NewsHour (October 7, 2014)accessed 2026-10-09
- One in three jobs will be taken by software or robots by 2025 - Computerworld (October 2014)accessed 2026-10-09
- The Employment Situation - December 2024 - U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (January 10, 2025)accessed 2026-10-09