Gen Z Is Already Afraid Automation Will Eat Their Jobs

That's what we might call the stock image of automation fears. It's the picture that graces the news story about grim job-loss forecasts or think pieces about whether the robots are'coming for our jobs.' This is who the robot threatens, who is afraid of the robot: older, semi-skilled, probably uneducated men in the manufacturing industries. Except it's not exactly true: Just about everyone, it turns out, is afraid that automation is going to erase their jobs, even the youngest, most starry-eyed among us. Studies have shown that automation has impacted some of the youngest members of the workforce the most, and a new bit of market research reveals that so-called Generation Z is already plenty worried about the phenomenon.