This applies to non-routine physical as well as mental tasks.
These non-routine searches include strip searches, body cavity searches and involuntary x-rays.
The non-routine part of the air-ground exchanges takes less than two minutes.
Dexterous robots such as Baxter can now do some non-routine manual tasks as well and skills such as medical diagnosis and legal analysis, once thought of as non-routine cognitive, are increasingly becoming automatable.
But they note that the boundaries of what counts as routine and non-routine are moving all the time.
Some non-routine jobs are also being threatened by automation and these include accountants, commercial pilots and real estate sales agents.
Considered in isolation, there was a defensible case for the second move, too – the imposition of so-called purdah, rules barring non-routine official announcements in the campaign.
To analyse the skills most affected, Brynjolfsson and McAfee categorise jobs as routine or non-routine and then again by whether they are cognitive or manual.
As non-routine work has become more prized, supply and demand in the labour market have become increasingly unbalanced.
No assumption is made for non-routine manual tasks.
Physical effort Medium Brain cycle Medium Social deviance Simple Non-routine Simple.
