Alexander Mann Solutions, a provider or RPO and MSP services, said that human employees are actually being enhanced and not depleted, by technology including automation.

The group said the ‘cyborg effect’ – where both organic and biomechatronic elements combine – is facilitating the creation of human employees who can operate at maximum efficiency. However, the group also warned that robots should not be viewed as stand-alone employees. 

“While the personification of robots may suggest that these machines are independent entities, in reality, the rise of automation, bots and AI is simply augmenting the roles of people in the workplace. Robots aren’t becoming human. In essence, people are becoming ‘cyborg-ed’,” Andrew Wayland, Chief Technology Officer at Alexander Mann Solutions, said.

“Treating bots and humans as completely separate entities in the workforce is unfeasible,” Wayland said. “While we may give robots names, the suggestion that an entire person can be replaced with a machines is unrealistic. People are wonderfully complex and they can’t be sliced and diced. Instead, we must explore how robots can fill in the gaps.”  

“We must move the dial and look at how technology can be deployed to enhance our people in what they do – allowing bots to remove mundane and boring tasks so that the capabilities of our talent can be amplified,” Weyland said.