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LinkedIn’s CEO says more than five million jobs will be lost to new tech by 2020

Jeff Weiner quoted a stat from the World Economic Forum.

by Meghann Farnsworth
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The world we’re living in is changing and so is the way we work — or not work.

At the Code Enterprise conference Tuesday, LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner shared a startling fact from the World Economic Forum: That by 2020, more than five million jobs will be displaced by new technology. That’s just four years from now.

Watch Weiner discuss the automation of jobs below and watch his full interview with Recode’s Kara Swisher and Senior Editor Kurt Wagner here.

This article originally appeared on Recode.net.

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