“Companies have been driving, and continue to drive, for increased productivity, to do more with less, and the tool to do that is technology improvement. … What are getting squeezed are the well-paying jobs with lower skill levels that used to give a middle-class income.”

Jonas Prising, president of the Americas for ManpowerGroup Inc. (NYSE: MAN), said in a Bloomberg article entitled “Americans Cling to Jobs as U.S. Workforce Dynamism Fades.”