Why Robots Will Displace Managers — and Create Other Jobs

While robot-adopting companies may shed some management and middle-skilled jobs, research shows that robots will increase employee head counts overall.

Recent, dramatic growth in robot adoption across an increasing number of global industries has sparked avid interest in the impact robots will have in the workplace — particularly which jobs they will replace and whether any new jobs will be created for humans. Our recent research focused primarily on physical robots, including both industrial and collaborative robots, used in production processes. Our data confirms that companies are indeed eliminating some human jobs in favor of robots — but that robot adoption is increasing the total number of nonmanagerial employees while reducing the number of middle managers needed.

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