Post By Brenda Walker on 10/23/2015

Automation: Forecast Shows Fewer Jobs for Humans

The Gartner consulting firm is in the business of advising tech companies and prognosticating about future trends in that regard. A year ago, it made a forecast that should have gotten a lot more atten...
Post By Brenda Walker on 10/17/2015

Germany Looks to Refugees for Labor, Even as It Transforms the Workplace with Automation

One of the reasons given for German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s excessive welcome to Syrian refugees was to add humans to the nation’s workforce. Tapping refugees to combat Germany’s labor shortage, Deu...
Post By Brenda Walker on 10/06/2015

Automation: Sixty Minutes Promotes Self-Driving Cars

The CBS premier news magazine show included an entirely laudatory segment about self-driving cars on Sunday. That was disappointing, since the show had a very good piece about automation in 2013, “Are ...
Post By Brenda Walker on 10/04/2015

Automation: Japan to Begin Testing of Self-Driving Taxis

It’s not surprising to see Japan moving forward with self-driving taxis, since that nation has chosen automation rather than immigration to augment its labor needs. After all, Japan was the first count...
Post By Brenda Walker on 10/01/2015

Automation: Human Workers Are Expected to Adjust to Robot ‘Colleagues’

People in the business of adding automation and subtracting humans from the workplace claim to be concerned about whether the remaining humans are happy with the arrangement. Certainly companies want c...