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In 2018, 600 large enterprises of Kazakhstan will carry out digitalization activities, which will lead to job cuts, reports the the vice Minister of Ministry of Labor and Social Protection of Population Nurzhan Altayev.

"On the one hand, it is a good opportunity for our enterprises and our economy, but on the other hand it is a challenge for us, because they will reduce jobs when digitizing." As the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection, we must keep our fingers on the pulse and clearly understand , where these people will find employment, "he said.

According to him, with these 600 large companies have already concluded the "Road maps", in which they outlined in detail the work on employment of people who will be cut.

"We will look at what enterprises will be robotized, digitized, where the seats will be released, and we will send these people to where they can find a job." According to our research, we see that the flow that will take place is not very large in compared with how many vacancies we will have in 2018. We expect that there will be more than 700,000 jobs for which we must redirect these people, "he said.

“The Qazaq Times”