As worker shortages intensify, companies are turning to automation and robotics on production lines. The key is retraining existing staff to coordinate robots instead of operating machinery manually, which increases both flexibility and efficiency.
As far as bringing in the automation and the robotics and things like that, I think this is a great opportunity to do that because you are going to be looking at an increasing workforce shortage. And you know, you're not—you're just not going to have the labor. I mean, you're going to think of it like well, people are going here and there, but in reality, whereas you used to have thirty employees running. machine line here, you now have 5.
Yep.
So really trying to be creative and innovative on ways that you can solve those challenges. And then also let those employees have a little bit more flexibility as well, right? Let them upskill them. So maybe they're coordinating the robots instead of operating them. Exactly.
Yeah, that's the area I think would be interesting to talk a little bit with you too, is that, again, this whole period here has had a lot of, as you say, workers kind of question their current situation. And that's not just the hourly worker, that's been all the way up, right? And, and especially also looking at, well, what is the company I'm working for going to do now once we get past this pandemic? What's the new environment? What's the new culture?
