A recent Wall Street Journal piece framed its robot-replacing-human story by focusing on one employee who loses her job counting cash, but is moved to a greeter position at the same wage. Since the unnamed woman is 55, her gig as human greeter will likely go to a robot when she retires, if not before, […]
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July 22nd, 2017 | Category: replacing workers with smart machines | Tags: automation, cashier jobs, job displacement, President Trump, retail, robot, technological unemployment |  Email This Post |  Print This Post Tech experts all say that simple jobs are the easiest to automate. Therefore we can expect to see a lot more self-checkout when shopping. How hard is it to scan bar codes and calculate the total cost? My local Safeway added several DIY checkout stations a couple years ago in a major remodel. Self-checkout — […] May 20th, 2017 | Category: replacing workers with smart machines | Tags: automation, cashier jobs, immigration, job displacement, poll, Rasmussen poll, robot, self-checkout, technological unemployment | Email This Post | Print This Post |
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