Impact of automation: employers plan to increase or maintain headcount

According to ManpowerGroup's research, Humans Wanted: Robots Need You, 87% of employers, globally, plan to increase or maintain headcount as a result of automation. Rather than reducing employment opportunities, organisations are investing in digital, shifting tasks to robots and creating new jobs. At the same time, companies are scaling their upskilling so their human workforce can perform new and complementary roles to those done by machines. In an exclusive interview with Information Age, Arjen van Berkum, COO of Another Monday, explains why robotic process automation doesn't have to mean redundancies. ManpowerGroup commissioned Infocorp to carry out quantitative research in 2018 surveying 19,417 employers across six industry sectors in 44 countries.