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In a finding from a Korn Ferry global survey of 800 top business executives, 44 percent of respondents said that the growth of robotics, automation and artificial intelligence will make people "largely irrelevant" in the future of work. Unlike the earlier generation of robots that operated separately from workers, the new robots work side by side with people and typically take on backbreaking tasks such as stacking tires. At the same time, the growth of manufacturing created millions of new jobs for the displaced farm workers. Scott Adams is practice leader, supply chain and operations for Korn Ferry Futurestep.