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A study of Japanese nursing homes found that productivity, quality and quantity of care improved after the adoption of robots.
About a hundred striking longshoremen marched by one of the terminals in the port of Baltimore. Some carried signs that say “machines don’t feed families.”
To reach a human representative, some companies have started charging a premium. Those unwilling to pay will have to stick with the bots.
Automation in coal mining has increased productivity and reduced employment in the industry.
A new report by Citi looks at the financial tasks that will be delegated to AI — and the new ones that will crop up.
The stat, called labor share of national income, is being squeezed by globalization, declining union membership and automation.
In the past, technology has displaced jobs but the economy has continually created new ones. Some experts see greater losses this time.
In the early 20th century, thousands of young women worked as telephone switchboard operators. Automation changed that.
A new report from the McKinsey Global Institute says some will lose their jobs and low-wage workers are the most likely to be hit.
That’s meant automating some tasks once done by humans and thinking carefully about the humans they do hire.