Easing in the Robots: How to Confront Employee Fears - Dell Technologies

It is perhaps the most pronounced narrative in business: Across industries, intelligent machines are marching (and these robots will take your jobs). Yet, most CEOs barely mention the subject to the employees who most fear they are at risk. Oftentimes, in their announcements of transformative projects--such as robotics processing automation (RPA), machine learning, natural language processing, and AI--business executives commend new operating efficiencies or workforce productivity, but fail to mention the impact on jobs. This impact, of course, is profound. A recent study by McKinsey predicts that over the next 13 years as many as 70 million workers in the U.S. will be forced aside by robots.