Andrew Coyne wrote an article in the Globe & Mail on February 12 entitled “The AI job apocalypse is coming. Or is it?” He acknowledges there will be layoffs but there will also be productivity gains, which has historically been a driving force in a growing economy. “AI’s technological advances may not cost workers their jobs, but enhance them, allowing each to produce more with the same effort.” I think they will also be able to focus on more value-added services, which could lead to new business and a growing company. It’s too early to know what will happen for sure, but we can look to other technologies to see what happened to jobs with automation – like ERP.
ERP was also feared as a job killing technology, but it’s our experience that companies that have embraced ERP, have eliminated many manual processes for their employees and replaced them with value-added work, which benefits the company and also the employees. I looked for stats to support (or refute) what happens to employees with an ERP implementation, and there’s not much out there. So, I created a brief survey, and will share the results with you, if we get enough responses.
Click here for the survey and thanks if you responded to it.
