Tag: Technology

Chennai Trade Centre to host first Automation Expo roadshow on May 3

The first ever road show on Automation Expo is being held as a prelude to the main event being organised in Mumbai from August 21. Chennai will be hosting the first Automation Expo Road Show to discuss the impact of AI and Robotics in process and factory automation.

The road show, to be organised as part of the Automation Expo 2024, would be held at the Chennai Trade Centre on May 3.

About 50 exhibitors from Mumbai would take part and display their exhibits.The organisers said they expected 500 to 1,000 users of instrumentation and automation to visit the road show.“This […]

HR Work Break: FTC’s Latest Noncompete Rule

HR Work Break: FTC’s Latest Noncompete Rule

The work and hiring landscape is rapidly changing. Are you keeping up? With the help of our sponsors, we created this brand new eBook to help you pave the way through your recruiting & talent acquisition path in 2024. We’ll discuss: How to manage a high-volume recruiting campaign Leading talent acquisition trends for 2024 How […] How Task Automation and Employee Self-Service Are Reshaping the HR Experience

In our “HR Task Automation and Employee Self-Service” survey conducted in mid-2023, we collected responses from 831 HR professionals about the significant role of technology in their industry. The findings highlight […]

Call center jobs at risk as AI advances, TCS CEO K Krithivasan warns

Call center jobs at risk as AI advances, TCS CEO K Krithivasan warns

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) CEO K Krithivasan has forecasted a big shift in the call center industry, with Artificial Intelligence (AI) said to dramatically reduce the need for traditional call centers within a year or so.

Advertisement Krithivasan believes that chatbots equipped with generative AI will be designed to analyse customer transaction histories and perform tasks traditionally handled by call centre agents. Photo: Bloomberg In Short

TCS CEO K Krithivasan has predicted a big shift in the call center industry He warns that AI could dramatically reduce the need for traditional call centers He predicted that this could happen […]

Lehigh Valley companies turn to automation to address labor shortage

Lehigh Valley companies turn to automation to address labor shortage

Participants explore the various vendor booths at the Manufacturers Resource…

Kris Jackson, a representative with Cross Trainer Learning, uses the…

Kris Jackson, a representative with Cross Trainer Learning, talks with… Kris Jackson, a representative with Cross Trainer Learning, talks with… Participants explore the various vendor booths at the Manufacturers Resource… Derek Light, a representative with Keyence, talks with Arthur Deets… Participants explore the various vendor booths at the Manufacturers Resource… Devin Gundrum,of Phillips Robotics, talks with Robert Wolff during the… Gene Kaschak,of MCR, talks with Matt Kimchak during the Manufacturers… […]

Sam Altman’s “one-person unicorn” and the future of the office

Sam Altman’s “one-person unicorn” and the future of the office

Sam Altman’s “one-person unicorn” and the future of the office

Back in January 2024, OpenAI’s Sam Altman captured headlines for his speculation at the coming of the world’s first one-person billion-dollar company, enabled by advances in AI. This follows a series of notably low-headcount businesses reaching this status in the past, including Instagram’s 2012 sale to Facebook ( with a 13-person headcount ).

Luke Graham · Follow Published in Pi Labs Insights ·4 min read·5 hours ago–Technology and automation have had a longstanding impact on employee headcount, with industrial and agricultural examples dating back generations (even centuries). Critics […]

Can SaaS Selling Be Automated? As Long As It’s Personal

Can SaaS Selling Be Automated? As Long As It’s Personal

getty In the past few years, market conditions have caused many SaaS companies to shift focus from growth at all costs to profitability. Pair this trend with the fast growth of automation and generative AI, and many sales teams have adopted these tools in a race to do more with less. Any quick change raises a lot of questions. Have the scales tipped too far toward automation versus the human touch? Which areas of SaaS sales can be automated, and which ones never will?

A recent McKinsey survey looked at what top-performing B2B tech and telecom companies do compared to […]

LinkedIn CEO says galvanizing 18,000 employees to shift objectives to AI hasn’t been easy but they’ve worked to ‘create a movement around it’

On this episode of Fortune ’s Leadership Next podcast, co-hosts Alan Murray and Michal Lev-Ram sit down with LinkedIn CEO Ryan Roslansky to discuss the company’s metamorphosis into an AI company. The interview covers topics ranging from the reasons for the change to how people should think about jobs in the future. Roslansky also explains why the future will be more about building for agility instead of stability.

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Alan Murray: Leadership Next is powered by the folks at Deloitte who, like me, are exploring the changing rules of business leadership […]

Artificial intelligence: Schaeffler and Siemens intensify collaboration

Artificial intelligence: Schaeffler and Siemens intensify collaboration

Schaeffler and Siemens sign memorandum of understanding (MoU) in the field of artificial intelligence in production

Memorandum of understanding focuses on joint development of digital solutions for the shop floor and AI applications in the industrial sector

Innovative AI assistant “Siemens Industrial Copilot” proving successful in test operation Motion Technology Company Schaeffler and technology company Siemens have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) at the Hannover Messe. Both companies will advance the use of artificial intelligence in the industrial sector and therefore make a significant joint contribution to shaping the digital production of the future. At the Hannover Messe, […]

Most Work Is New Work, Long-Term Study of U.S. Census Data Shows

Most Work Is New Work, Long-Term Study of U.S. Census Data Shows

By Peter Dizikes | MIT News

This is part 1 of a two-part MIT News feature examining new job creation in the U.S. since 1940, based on new research from Ford Professor of Economics David Autor. Part 2 is available here .

In 1900, Orville and Wilbur Wright listed their occupations as “Merchant, bicycle” on the U.S. census form. Three years later, they made their famous first airplane flight in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. So, on the next U.S. census, in 1910, the brothers each called themselves “Inventor, aeroplane.” There weren’t too many of those around at the […]

Amazon, the world’s second-largest employer, replaces 100,000 humans with 750,000 robots, a ‘microcosm of how AI is changing the workforce’

Amazon, the world's second-largest employer, replaces 100,000 humans with 750,000 robots, a 'microcosm of how AI is changing the workforce'

Amazon, the world’s second-largest private employer with 1.5 million employees, is cutting its workforce by 100,000 and putting about 750,000 robots to work, financial news media Benzinga reported.

Amazon Grows To Over 750,000 Robots As World’s Second-Largest Private Employer Replaces Over 100,000 Humans – Benzinga

https://www.benzinga.com/general/24/04/38202793/amazon-grows-to-over-750-000-robots-as-worlds-second-largest-private-employer-replaces-over-100-000 Top Amazon exec says it’s a ‘myth’ robots steal jobs https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/12/top-amazon-exec-says-its-a-myth-robots-steal-jobs.html According to Benzinga, the number of Amazon employees has fallen to 1.5 million at the time of writing, down from 1.6 million in 2021. Meanwhile, Benzinga reports that Amazon is introducing 200,000 robots in 2019 and 520,000 robots by […]