Workers underestimate ‘robotisation’ of jobs

New Zealander workers greatly underestimate the extent to which their roles will be replaced by robots, according to a survey undertaken by the Massey Business School and Auckland University of Technology.

Dr David Brougham from the Massey Business School and Professor Jarrod Haar from AUT surveyed 500 New Zealand employees earlier this year and say 80 percent of participants did not think their job could be automated. They say the results did not deviate significantly from data collected in 2015 and 2016, despite extensive media coverage of the issue over that time.

Brougham said: “There is an interesting cognitive bias going […]

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