South Africa
Half of SA companies want to replace ‘repetitive jobs’ with machines─── 11:09 Sun, 23 Jun 2019
Half of South African companies want to replace ‘repetitive jobs’ with machines.
Business Tech reports this is contained in financial services company Deloitte 2019 Global Human Capital Trends report, looking at how technology will impact international and local companies.
Completed by nearly 10,000 respondents in 119 countries, the report is the largest longitudinal survey of its kind.
One of the key focuses of the report is how automation is expected to impact major companies globally.
In South Africa, more than half of respondents (51%) are exploring automation and 58% state they are using automation to replace repetitive work.
Deloitte says that as organisations embrace and adopt robotics and AI, they’re finding that virtually every job can be redesigned—creating new categories of work, including hybrid jobs and ‘superjobs’.
