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Future Of Process Automation

RPA is different from IT automation in that it can adapt to changing circumstances. What is your relationship with technology going to be? University Health Network, MIT CSAIL. That’s almost certainly wrong. Organize your future with robotic process automation. Best and worst use cases of robotic process automation and its outlook for the future At this stage, the market isn’t entirely sure whether RPA is a permanent fix for automating certain business processes or a temporary stopgap. If employees are freed from repetitive manual tasks, they can. Varun Aggarwal Mumbai UNO for Robotic Process Automation, and TACTiX as our. […]

Rethinking Retraining: Why Worker Training Programs Alone Won’t Save Coal Country

Rethinking Retraining: Why Worker Training Programs Alone Won’t Save Coal Country

Bobby Bowman mined coal in West Virginia for 12 years before his employer shut down.

“I don’t think that mine will ever open again,” he said.

Bowman lives in Welch, in the south of the state, where he worked at the Pinnacle Mine, which shut down almost exactly one year ago, putting him and about 400 others out of work. After waiting a month in hopes someone would buy Pinnacle and the mine would reopen, Bowman decided to do a four-week training program offered by the United Mine Workers Career Center . He enjoyed it and earned a certification in heavy […]

HR Tech 2019: 3 takeaways from Ravin Jesuthasan

HR Tech 2019: 3 takeaways from Ravin Jesuthasan

Automation won’t make workers irrelevant, the consultant and author says. Human Resource Executive’s HR Technology conference at the Venetian wrapped up Friday in Las Vegas. (Photo by Isaac Brekken for Human Resource Executive) The largest-ever HR Technology & Exposition Conference came to a close Friday in Las Vegas with a closing keynote from Ravin Jesuthasan, managing director at Willis Towers Watson, who spoke about the future of work and the role that technology and HR professionals play in it.

“The pace of change that we’re seeing now is of a magnitude greater than anything we’ve seen over the last [few […]

Why Worker Training Programs Alone Won’t Save Coal Country

Why Worker Training Programs Alone Won’t Save Coal Country

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Bobby Bowman mined coal in West Virginia for 12 years before his employer shut down.

“I don’t think that mine will ever open again,” he said.Bowman lives in Welch, in the south of the state, where he worked at the Pinnacle Mine, which shut down almost exactly one year ago, putting him and about 400 others out of work. After waiting a month in hopes someone would buy Pinnacle and the mine would reopen, Bowman decided to do a four-week training program […]

Is AI an agent of big tech hegemony or multi-disciplinary research and innovation?

Is AI an agent of big tech hegemony or multi-disciplinary research and innovation?

Summary: A recent New York Times article focused on fears of a big tech monopoly over AI technology and research. Severe debunkery ensues… A recent New York Times article fretting about the soaring costs of developing and training leading-edge deep learning models and my admittedly provocative Tweet questioning the premise and motives of the article’s sources led to the type of online banter that indicates a nuanced question ill-suited for pithy Twitter responses.

Fears of AI creating a chasm between haves and have-nots are common, however the topic of AI-fueled inequality typically centers on its economic effects, namely that the […]

‘Goliath Is Winning’: The Biggest U.S. Banks Are Set to Automate Away 200,000 Jobs

'Goliath Is Winning': The Biggest U.S. Banks Are Set to Automate Away 200,000 Jobs

Over the next decade, U.S. banks, which are investing $150 billion in technology annually, will use automation to eliminate 200,000 jobs , thus facilitating “the greatest transfer from labor to capital” in the industry’s history. The call is coming from inside the house this time, too—both the projection and the quote come from a recent Wells Fargo report, whose lead author, Mike Mayo, told the Financial Times that he expects the industry to shed 10 percent of all of its jobs.

This, Mayo said, will lay the groundwork for, and I quote, “a golden age of banking efficiency.” The job […]

Unmarried women in US face shortage of economically attractive male partners: Study

Unmarried women in US face shortage of economically attractive male partners: Study

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Recent declines in US marriage are mirrored each in delayed marriage and will increase in everlasting singlehood, punctuated by intermittent spells of nonmarital cohabitation. One argument is that the normal financial foundations of marriage have been eroded by a deteriorating job market, a consequence of automation, deskilling, deunionisation, and international competitors for affordable labour.

Certainly, sociologist William Julius Wilson’s (1987) “marriageable male” speculation gives a helpful theoretical and empirical benchmark, claiming that declines in marriage are pushed at the least partially by reductions in employment prospects and earnings amongst males, particularly […]

Discovering a game changer: Robotic Process Automation

Discovering a game changer: Robotic Process Automation

library photo Over the years, implementing User Experience (UX) change processes have become a major challenge for developers, but the good thing is that 70 per cent of user events are repetitive and this is where the demand for automation gets very high.

The downside to that are the life cycle of the processes involved, with their associated costs, making them unattractive options for business owners.

Get Digital Versions of Graphic Publications by downloading Graphic NewsPlus Here. Also available in the Google Play Store and Apple App StoreSuffice it to say that Business Process Innovation is at the heart of […]

India Economic Summit: Anti-globalisation, US-China trade war, tech disruption dominate discussions

India Economic Summit: Anti-globalisation, US-China trade war, tech disruption dominate discussions

WEF India Economic Summit 2019 There are multiple issues needling the world right now. Globalisation appears to be in retreat, the gap between the haves and the have-nots are widening in many parts of the world and countries are struggling to deal with the fourth industrial revolution or Industry 4.0. These themes resonated at the opening day of the 33rd India Economic Summit in Delhi on Thursday. The summit is hosted by the World Economic Forum in collaboration with the Confederation of Indian Industry.

Many business leaders and politicians appeared to be worried that the trade frictions between different countries […]

Yes, computers really are taking jobs from humans — especially in banking: Don Pittis

Yes, computers really are taking jobs from humans — especially in banking: Don Pittis

Don Pittis · CBC News · Posted: Oct 03, 2019 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: 18 minutes ago A new report says technology will result in the ‘greatest transfer from labour to capital’ in banking history leading to a net loss of 10 per cent of banking jobs. (Don Pittis/CBC) A worrying new report has just added a credible voice to the idea that computers are coming for our jobs.

As I write, the clients-only Wells Fargo report has not been made public, but those who have seen it quote the 225-page document as saying technology will slash 10 […]