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Is Automation Improving the Employee Experience?

Is Automation Improving the Employee Experience?

Figures alone are incapable of telling the full story of automation. It’s made up of nuances and exceptions, like what type of jobs will need replacement, and how soon. Industry demands, employee skill level, job training, and resource redeployment can vary the outcome. Is it possible for automation to go too far—to render employees obsolete?

Automation has no universal effect but it does have a measurable one. This is evidenced by MIT Researcher Daron Acemoglu and Pascual Restrepo of Boston University. Their study observed how robotic automation impacts job reduction. The researchers found that the introduction of one robot per […]

How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love AI

How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love AI

BARCELONA, CATALONIA, SPAIN – 2019/02/27: The humanoid robot Pepper of the American company … [+] The machines are rising! Robots are stealing our jobs! AI is making us obsolete! Maybe it’s inherited trauma from the Industrial Revolution, but in recent years people’s concerns about artificial intelligence have heightened, especially anxiety that the technology will replace human workers throughout the economy. It was even the basis of one 2020 presidential candidate’s campaign. Well, I bring a message of optimism. While AI will dramatically transform how work is done and who does it, its overall impact won’t be to displace humans […]

Give Workers a Fighting Chance

Give Workers a Fighting Chance

At a time when businesses are awash in technologies capable of replacing human labor, the US tax code is encouraging them to embrace excessive levels of automation – even to the point where it is no longer efficient to do so. Rarely before has the deck been stacked so fully against workers.

CAMBRIDGE – The first months of US President Joe Biden’s administration will be defined by the efforts to contain COVID-19 and deliver vaccinations on a mass scale. Over the medium term, however, the economy will determine the administration’s success. Here, Biden has indicated that tax reform will be […]

The Possibility Of A Dark, Frightening Side To The Future Of Work

The Possibility Of A Dark, Frightening Side To The Future Of Work

getty There could be a dark side to the future of work. The adverse effects of the pandemic may restructure society—and not in the way we want. The rich will get richer and the middle class and poor will face grave financial and career challenges.

We’ll see the emergence of tech-savvy, Orwellian corporations spying on you. There’s a strong possibility that we’re fast heading toward a new medieval feudalistic society, as people will be thrusted unwillingly into the gig economy, contract work and forced into retirement—due to lack of alternatives. Workers will need to cope with chronic underemployment and unemployment. […]

Will Budget 2021 spur job creation in India?

Will Budget 2021 spur job creation in India?

Representational image | Shutterstock Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has stressed that the 2021 Budget will help India emerge as the engine for global growth. For this, job creation will be crucial, as the economy struggles to revive itself post the COVID-19 pandemic.

One litmus test for this budget will be whether it can benefit the sectors that will boost job creation and help India achieve its dream of becoming a $5 trillion economy.

India’s economic recovery will be defined by its expenditure and investment in youth—who will need re-skilling, up-skilling and new-skilling to compete in the new normal. The sectors expected […]

Digital Workforce from Blue Prism Helps Charity to Focus on What Really Matters

Digital Workforce from Blue Prism Helps Charity to Focus on What Really Matters

LONDON, Jan. 26, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Blue Prism’s intelligent automation technology is being embraced by Mencap, the UK’s leading learning disability charity, who are one of the world’s first not for profit organizations to use robotic process automation (RPA) technology to work smarter, faster and more efficiently than ever – without using additional resources. mencap The Covid-19 pandemic has proved difficult for everyone, but people with a learning disability have been one group who have been hit hardest. It’s increasingly important that the charity is able to work efficiently to provide the best possible support for the 1.5 million […]

When Pharmaceutical Automation Projects Fail: Averting Disaster Through Risk Assessment

When Pharmaceutical Automation Projects Fail: Averting Disaster Through Risk Assessment

Rock Crack Digital transformation concerns the successful blending of technology, business processes, and changes to workplace culture. One of the pillars of digital transformation is automation, and this applies as equally to pharmaceutical processing as to other economic sectors. Automation can be defined in different ways; in the context of this article, the International Society of Automation definition fits well, namely: “The creation and application of technology to monitor and control the production and delivery of products and services.” 1 The term “business process automation” is in common use for delivering these aims.

The advantages of introducing automated operations include […]

Revolutionary Robotics

Revolutionary Robotics

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The role of robotics and the technological advancements in the human race is fast becoming a digital trend, leaving strands of hope in the minds of men, and traces of doubt on the survival of humanity in the near-to-distant future.

Robotics and Artificial Intelligence (AI) are the fundamental elements of the digital technology with great prospects on humanity, channels of possibilities, and pathways for various newer innovations.However, there are certain questions that call for retrospection on the result of our interaction with the robots: fundamental questions on how these systems affect our lives, possible usage mishaps, automation and […]

The drastic effects of automation on the future jobs market

The drastic effects of automation on the future jobs market

With the increase of automation and machines in the workplace, it’s now harder than ever for individuals to pick a future-proof career that offers real job security. Computers and Artificial Intelligence (AI) are transforming the modern workplace and rendering many previously secure and valued roles worthless.

There’s nothing particularly new about computers performing human jobs – after all, the assembly line method of manufacturing that became so prevalent in the last century soon moved from manual worker production to manufacturing by robots. However, the new age of automation we currently face heralded by increasingly sophisticated computers is starting to affect […]

Despite a Year of Disruption, Manufacturing Optimism Prevails

Despite a Year of Disruption, Manufacturing Optimism Prevails

The following article first appeared on the CONNSTEP website .

What a year 2020 was for manufacturers.

Deemed essential during the early stages of the pandemic, some closed, some struggled to remain open, some pivoted part of their operation to meet personal protective equipment demand, and most continued to carry on their business as best they could.Manufacturers restructured their facilities to create protected, socially-distanced work environments for employees to ensure their health and safety and that of their families.Disruptions in the supply chain impacted customer order fulfillment while some customers were forced to cancel or scale back orders due to […]