Robot workers appear to be taking part in their own version of the gig economy, with some being rented out to short-handed companies for nearly half the cost of a human worker — which does not bode ...

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Robots are hailed as the masters of routine work. In HR, for example, teams can rely on intelligent software to perform mundane tasks, such as scheduling interviews, managing benefits, and even ...

In the same week that Amazon announces it is firing 14,000 workers, The New York Times runs an article with the headline, "Amazon Plans to Replace More Than Half a Million Jobs with Robots." You see ...

Ramesh Shrestha doesn't worry about a robot replacing his job because in some ways — one already has. Shrestha, a supervisor for commercial cleaning company Ultra Shine, has a robot named Bob as a ...

Robots don't pay into Social Security. Maybe we should tax them instead. Robots are deeply embedded in corporate America. The basic construct of Social Security is this: Workers and their employers ...

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