automation threat
Despite automation threat, Smartsheet CEO sees 'the future of work remaining very human'
The doomsday headlines about automation and job displacement continue to pile up. Nearly half of all jobs are at risk, one report said. Another found that white-collar jobs once thought safe are in the crosshairs. "I fundamentally don't believe that," Mader said of automation displacing huge swaths of workers during a recent speech at Seattle University's Albers School of Business and Economics. "There is so much unstructured work for which you can't actually program the robot to do that work."