Staff invited to make way for robots

It's probably the most unusual question asked in a staff survey: Could a robot do your job better than you? Whether or not the 16,000 British workers at the insurance company Aviva will reply honestly remains to be seen. Those who do answer "yes" have been told that they will be retrained for another role in the company. Many other employers have introduced automation into the workplace but without any form of consultation. Staff who work in call centres, assess customers' credit ratings and calculate the price of insurance policies are most likely to have to retrain, research suggests.