Technological advances in artificial intelligence (robots) will make 50 percent of occupations redundant by 2025. Workers and companies need to prepare now for the future shift.

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Advances in artificial intelligence (also known as robotics) are taking over the workplace and will make 50 percent of occupations redundant by 2025, according to a new report by the real estate consulting firm CBRE.

The CBRE report, titled Fast Forward 2030: The Future of Work and the Workplace, quotes a 2013 Oxford Martin School study that predicted that nearly half of American jobs are vulnerable to computerization by 2025.

Customer work, process work and vast swatches of middle management will simply 'disappear,' according to a new report by consulting firm CBRE and China-based Genesis, stated The Daily Mail.

But CBRE is also quick to point out that losing occupations does not necessarily mean losing jobs just changing what people do.

There will also be a revolution in the traditional workplace, the report says: The rows of desk and mazes of cubicles we have today will be mostly gone by 2030. Not because they are not fit for purpose, but simply because that purpose will no longer exist, reported Human Resources Online.

The future workplace will be designed around activity-based working. This was defined by a variety of quiet retreats as well as collaborative settings, best suited for work at that particular moment in other words, places to work, not workplaces, continued Human Resources Online.

Citing the Oxford study, the New Zealand Herald lists 20 jobs at highest risk of being replaced by robots. Here is the top five: telemarketers, title examiners, sewage workers, mathematical technicians and insurance writers.

In order to prepare for the occupational shift, employees need to be creatively and socially intelligent, CBRE stated.

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Robots will replace 50 percent of today's occupations by 2025