Between 1980 and 2012, jobs requiring high levels of social interaction increased by nearly 12 percentage points as a share of the U.S. labor force.
Sources
- The Growing Importance of Social Skills in the Labor Market (hks.harvard.edu)
- https://www.nber.org/papers/w21473 (nber.org)
- https://academic.oup.com/qje/article-abstract/132/4/1593/3861633 (academic.oup.com)
- https://econofact.org/automation-and-the-growing-importance-of-social-skills-in-the-labor-market (econofact.org)
- https://journalistsresource.org/economics/social-skills-valuable-jobs-workers/ (journalistsresource.org)
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