Tom BurtonCo-Founder, COO and CTO of LeadSmart Technologies

The truth about automation replacing jobs #automation

Name: The truth about automation replacing jobs #automation
Uploaded: 2024-10-10T15:15:26+00:00
Duration: 40 s
Channel: Tom Burton
Description: Short excerpt from a YouTube video by Tom Burton discussing automation's effects on jobs. The speaker cites the Port of Rotterdam as a near-fully…

10 Oct 2024 · 1 min

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Short excerpt from a YouTube video by Tom Burton discussing automation's effects on jobs. The speaker cites the Port of Rotterdam as a near-fully automated example, arguing automation creates safer and more efficient environments, reduces the number of traditional jobs, and shifts demand toward different kinds of roles rather than eliminating all human needs.

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The reference point for this on the automation side is to Rotterdam and the Port of Rotterdam is nearly fully automated now with very few employees in comparison. Needed safer environment, more efficient environment. Automation doesn't go on strike me, it breaks occasionally. And to your point, Look, I think there's a need for people there. I think it might just be a need for different jobs in that setting. Right. We talk a lot about AI and other types of automation on an ongoing basis that are going to augment people. So maybe we don't need as many jobs there because of automation, but.