{"id":4269407,"date":"2022-05-30T10:57:45","date_gmt":"2022-05-30T08:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deptagency.com\/insight\/the-impact-of-automation-on-the-future-of-work\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T13:41:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T11:41:05","slug":"the-impact-of-automation-on-the-future-of-work","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.deptagency.com\/en-au\/insight\/the-impact-of-automation-on-the-future-of-work\/","title":{"rendered":"The impact of automation on the future of work"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\t\t\tBy Mark van Rijmenam, Author of The Organisation of Tomorrow<\/em> and Step into the Metaverse<\/em><\/strong>

Automation has great potential for society and it is this promise that makes the future of work so incredibly exciting. In my opinion, automation is one of the three parts that will define the future of work alongside data and decentralisation. All three combined have the potential to fundamentally change society and make work better, faster, more efficient \u2013 and more humane.\t<\/h2>\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n
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\n\t\tWhile many organisations are focusing on the low hanging fruit, such as automating call centres or using robotic processing automation, the real potential that AI and machine learning will bring over the years is when organisations start experimenting with it in the way that the big tech firms are currently doing.\u00a0

In 10 years from now, we will be automating more complex, strategic tasks. Examples include self-driving cars and fully automated warehouses. We will start to see the results of connecting and automating different processes. We see the beginnings of this process already in the Tesla Gigafactory and the \u2018dark factories\u2019 of China. Currently, these fully automated systems are outliers, but we are moving in that direction.

What we can learn from the Gigafactory is that it took Tesla a very long time to achieve the level of automation that they have, but once a company has established an effective system, the benefits are enormous. Businesses can operate their factories more efficiently and effectively. At the start of the pandemic, a number of Chinese factories became dark factories which enabled them to continue to operate despite the lockdowns.\t<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\t