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Automation, robots and the ‘end of work’ myth

29 Jan 2018

Read The Conversation’s most popular University of Manchester article – at 21,000 reads

Tony Dundon and Debra Howcroft

Predictions of an easy life for humans while robots do most of the work were not necessarily on the money, according to two of our professors in an article they wrote for The Conversation.

Tony Dundon, Professor of HRM and Employment Relations, and Debra Howcroft, Professor of Technology and Organisation, argue that the gig economy in which workers will ‘mix it up’ between a variety of jobs will benefit their employers much more.

‘Automation, robots and the ‘end of work’ myth’ was The Conversation’s most popular article from The University of Manchester, generating 21,000 reads so far.

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