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Is automation decreasing employment in the world?

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Question added by juzer malek , ASSISTANT SYSTEM ENGINEER TRAINEE , TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES
Date Posted: 2016/01/08

yes,decresing the employments and increase the quality of work and get maximum output from lowest time

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by Deleted user

No, design and manufacture automation system also needs human. 

Labor  to operate plant is reduced but not employment of human.

Manufacturers need for human resource is increased on the other hand.

 

Jamaica Malaluan
by Jamaica Malaluan , ICT PRE SALES , Beta Information Technology

Yes of course. An automation may it be implemented on small or big systems, it will always reduce the effort of one individual towards a certain task hence, sooner or later will decrease employment. However, I believe automation may not always lead to unemployment. Automation produces high quality of results on a small amount time and because of this, the business could have the opportunity to grow and expand which allows them to employ more people though it may take some time to increase employment.

Yogesh Dhakad
by Yogesh Dhakad , Director Technical , Timeless Horizon Engineering Solutions

Actually it is "not".

It has effect of "face-lifting" the overall way the work is accomplished and causes increase in the efficiency. If we look it other way round, automation just cuts down small portion from the original work-content and adds a whole new options and opportunities. These opportunities have the scope for "out-sourcing".

 

In summary automation tries to break up the monopoly and tries to distribute the processes with the view that some of the processes could be easily outsourced or treated separately.

In effect there is no fear that "humans will be replaced with automation work".

Hasan Zainy
by Hasan Zainy , Control / Instrumentation Filed Service Engineer , GE

short answer no. so i agree with Mr,  Muhammad Waqas .

automation is for helping people in doing stuff better and keep them safe in case there are saftey issue or extreme condition from heat etc..

employment for operators, maintenance , manufacturing these system and their subsystem from instrument. so if you think about all these people you will consider it will not reduce the employment   

Muhammad Zaheer Abbas
by Muhammad Zaheer Abbas , Office Assistant , Crescent Textile Mills

Yes automation decrease the employment because it use robot more and more and remove the workman.

Muhammad Sherif
by Muhammad Sherif , Founder, Managing Director & Sr. Lead Business Consultant , New Directions Consulting, Training & Services

Yes, automation can affects manpower but human availability is very important especially when they were trained and have abilities to run the job, robots can change humans especially in common work but for complicated work which needs highly developed manpower we can not decrease human.

Kunwer Sufian Shahid, SPHR
by Kunwer Sufian Shahid, SPHR , Manager HR , Etisalat (PTCL)

On the face of it, automation may decrease the employment in the world. But at the same time it is pushing/motivating mankind to transform the skill sets/qualifications and approach towards life. My two cents.

Rehan Farooq
by Rehan Farooq , WEB DEVELOPER/DIGITAL MARKETING EXPERT , Upwork

You can say that it is decreasing employment and also bringing new challenges each and everyday! Those who really have the skills and qualification can certainly establish a firm instead of doing jobs for others!

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