Even before the pandemic, the economy was seeing a shift to automation, as companies looked for cheaper, more efficient ways to build their products or serve more customers. Now the pandemic has led ...

The damage from pandemic-induced lockdowns, office and school closures and consumer retrenchment continue to reverberate through the economy. As the crisis drags into its seventh month, it has left ...

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About 75 percent of industry labor markets at risk of unemployment due to the COVID-19 pandemic are closely aligned with industries that have a high potential for automation by artificial intelligence ...

With the COVID-19 pandemic, an increase in automation, both in the service and manufacturing sector, may put workers in jeopardy across the U.S. By allowing automation in facilities, services may ...

The Economic Hardship Reporting Project and The Nation report on retail automation's negative impact, revealing potential ...

(TNS) — For decades, the attitude of unions and their advocates to increased automation could be summed up in one word: no. They feared that every time a machine was slipped into the workflow, a ...

In recent years, the debate over the utility of autonomous vehicles (AVs) has been wide-ranging and somewhat skeptical. We have seen reports about how this technology would save millions of lives from ...

A year into a remote transition, firms still haven't defined all workflows that may benefit from tech-enabled efficiencies. COVID-19 has accelerated law firms' automation efforts, and those ...

The pandemic-fueled growth in the adoption of software robots designed to ease routine office work is making one task a lot easier for chief information officers: selling the idea to their corporate ...

The scale of goods moving around the planet at any moment is staggering. Raw materials are dug up in one country, spun into parts and pieces in another, and assembled into products in a third.