Job-Futuromat — Germany's National Tool Showing How Automatable Your Profession Is

The Job-Futuromat is a free, register-free online tool run by Germany's Institute for Employment Research (IAB), the research arm of the Federal Employment Agency, conceived during the ARD public broadcaster's 2016 'Zukunft der Arbeit' theme week by data journalist Bjoern Schwentker with IAB/Federal Employment Agency statisticians supplying the underlying data and methodology.

Show pupils, graduates, employees and jobseekers how automatable their profession is, as a starting point for career and further-training decisions rather than as a job-loss predictor.

For roughly 4,000 recognised occupations, the tool calculates a 'substitution potential' — the share of an occupation's core tasks technically performable by current digital technologies — and shows how that potential has shifted over time. IAB revised the underlying occupational task data in 2019 and 2022, and relaunched the interface in 2025 with a guided-tour chatbot ('Jo Bot'), short occupation descriptions, in-demand-skills information and sustainability indicators.

The German national education portal (Deutscher Bildungsserver) lists it as a vocational-training resource; both IAB and the Bildungsserver caution that a high substitution score 'is no indication that the profession will soon no longer exist.'

No independent outcome study links tool use to actual upskilling or career decisions; evidence is limited to descriptive tool design, methodology transparency and reach.