Threat of automation taking away your job is real

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The Jobs Disruption Survey of nearly 11,000 employees by ET Online has found that a large number of employees see automation taking away their jobs even though the trend is more visible in the information technology sector at this stage.

More than half of employees sensing a threat to their jobs from automation and related technologies indicates the seriousness of the threat 'robots' hold for jobs across various sectors.

The report said increasing use of digitisation, automation and artificial intelligence in businesses and organisations would hit Indian employees the hardest in the world in the short term by cutting jobs.

Over a quarter of employers in India expect to reduce headcount due to automation.

While, at present, automation can impact jobs by changing work profiles, employers killing jobs altogether due to automation does not seem to be a near-term phenomenon across sectors , suggests ET Online's Jobs Disruption Survey.

When employees were asked if they think their job was going to vanish in future due to emerging technology, 44 per cent said 'yes' while 38 per cent said 'no'.

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