Thuy Phamdixon takes a blue and white striped cotton cloth and positions it under her sewing machine's needle. Deftly turning it, the machinist shapes the  piece into a short sleeve for a sample shirt-dress destined for the upcoming New York Fashion Week.
This is the 105th garment headed to the fashion capital from Sample Room's modest headquarters in Brunswick East. 
Started seven years ago, the business delivers the traditional craft of pattern and sample making.
But its director Julia Van Der Sommen said it took a high-speed fibre connection to the national broadband network  to turn the small enterprise into a "global workplace".
"Our business has doubled in the last year," Ms Van Der Sommen said. "We had  five people in the old premises and now we have about 10.
"We are planning on taking on a couple of pattern makers next year, a full-time cutter and another machinist."
A new study, which identifies  key areas of employment growth over the next decade, has found  Van Der Sommen's fashion and design field is among those which will prove resilient to massive structural and technological changes that will transform work in Australia.
The study by demographer Bernard Salt finds the development of new technology will also create new opportunities for entrepreneurs.  
Fitness instructors, beauty therapists, nannies and other service providers will be in demand, as will people in the high-skilled information and technology field. People in specialist professions including doctors, dentists, nurses, teachers, urban planners and accountants will remain in high demand and they will make greater use of technology to help them do their jobs.
Yoga instructors, photographers, social media specialists and other creative workers in the digital media, film and TV, fashion and design, are also expected to be highly sought after,  says the study, commissioned by the National Broadband Network.
As people become more interested in curating their persona on the internet through social media, jobs for photographers have expanded.
"You would think it would go the opposite way with every phone having a camera but, in  fact jobs for photographers have increased by 27 per cent over the past decade," Salt says.
"We will still need plumbers, electricians, carpenters, builders, teachers and nurses in the future. But the way they will do their job will be different. They will have greater connectivity."
Professor Stephen Leeder, who chairs the Western Sydney Local Health District Board, is looking forward to a revolution in the way health services are provided.
"We are not going to fit everybody out with their own home robot that will do the job of a GP," Professor Leeder says.
"There will be an increase in the number of jobs on the basis of projected demographic growth but the really exciting possibility is that there may well be new jobs in fields we have hardly dreamt of, people with skills in other fields like information technology."
University students studying engineering, sciences and technology will be involved in helping design the health sector jobs of the future.
Salt says Australia has created 3.3 million jobs over the past 10 years (while losing 300,000 along the way) and is optimistic about the employment outlook for the 2020s.
"If we have people freed substantially from the sort of drudgery work we have had in the past, it will actually open  the scope for people to be far more creative in the future," he says.
The manufacturing sector, which has contracted from about 1.6 million in the 1970s, to about 900,000, may scale back further to 700,000.
"There will be continued pressure on manufacturing. But, for every job that is lost in manufacturing, there are 10 jobs created elsewhere. We might not be making as much stuff but we are creating services," Salt says.
Professor Roy Green, dean of the University of Technology Sydney business school, says many Australian jobs are being offshored, automated and devalued by low-cost competition.
"We are going to see some very big changes,"  Green says. "Obviously, as jobs get destroyed, others get created."
 Many new jobs will be linked to new technologies but others will be created from harnessing creativity.
"These are skills that will bring rewards in the labour market. They will be in the technology sector, in entrepreneurial startups, the development of new business models."
This has certainly proved true for Ms Van Der Sommen, who said  the NBN allowed her to cultivate overseas and interstate clients.
 She expanded her Fashion Label Launch Pad, a teaching tool for budding pattern and sample makers, as well as fashion designers.
"We used to do the mentoring program face to face. It was only available to people  who could drive to our office at 6.30 on a Tuesday night," she said.
Now the students are logging in from America, New Zealand and from all over Australia.
"It's gone from 10 to 30 students over the past year," Ms Van Der Sommen said.