Veskit posted:

I'm surprised how much of this thread is about physical robots doing tasks.



You hit the nail on the head, but I want to bring up a point that this thread isn't exactly addressing.



Jobs aren't going to be lost because in a company of 80, you went and found the person at the bottom rung and said we're going to effectively make your job a robot. Lets for all intents and purposes say the person is the frontdesk person. You'd have to automate greeting, taking appointments, giving out appointments, phone calls, data entry etc etc and really it'd be a loving mess to turn that person's entire role into a bot.


What is easy though, is to look down the line of all 80 of your employees, and ask "what are groups of people doing that is effectively the same thing" You can automate accounting reconciliations, you can automate internet research for updates, getting information from the enterprise systems and so on and so on. You're not replacing a person, you're replacing rather a pool of tasks that add up to people savings way faster. Then when you save a person's worth of work, you can let go the most expensive one, and delegate work. Wait for someone to leave the company, delegate that work to everyone, and then rescue them through automation. Then your employees are thanking you for lowering their workload when in reality you cut expenses.


The way robots are going to take over the corporate office is loving evil, and you would all be amazed how quickly you can replace a person. A lovely programmer with the right stuff can replace 2 people a year with little to no issues, and these aren't farming jobs or construction or anything like that. Just be careful when you talk about arms, gears, psitons and whatever the gently caress when really good white collar jobs are in the process of plummeting.