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Over the last four decades, the income gap between more- and less-educated workers has grown significantly; the study finds that automation accounts for more than half of that increase.…

In other cases, forms of automation have simply replaced factory workers, receptionists, and many other kinds of employees.…

Humans vs. automation: Service center agents can outperform technology. August 22, 2021. Previous research noted in TR has shown that companies tend to rush into automation even when it’s clear that there is little or no benefit to doing so.…

But before pursuing automation that could put the jobs of human employees at risk, it is important that business owners take careful stock of their operations.…

Some technologists have forecast that automation will lead to a future without work, while other observers have been more skeptical about such scenarios.…

Prior research has shown that automation stopped creating new jobs in the 1980s and thereafter led to a net loss of jobs. Granted that as digitalization came into vogue new occupations were created—programmers for example.…

The nature of work has changed dramatically in the last century from Henry Ford’s moving assembly line to automation today, but arguably the largest change is women.…

Women are also more at risk from job automation, which has increased over the course of the pandemic.…

Low collective bargaining power, an increase in low quality unstable jobs and decreasing wages on the one hand and the rise of automation and skill biased technology on the other have contributed to this high dropout rate.…