Robots as our Bosses

Does not necessarily mean there will soon be android devices wandering the aisles of your workplace.  And most workplaces are measured by goals attained.  Measured and analyzed digitally.  But the complete systemization of that has never been there,  and we are moving that way.  Will we see this more ominously?

 

How Hard Will the Robots Make us Work?

In warehouses, call centers, and other sectors, intelligent machines are managing humans, and they’re making work more stressful, grueling, and dangerous

By Josh Dzieza@joshdzieza  in TheVerge

 

OnOn conference stages and at campaign rallies, tech executives and politicians warn of a looming automation crisis — one where workers are gradually, then all at once, replaced by intelligent machines. But their warnings mask the fact that an automation crisis has already arrived. The robots are here, they’re working in management, and they’re grinding workers into the ground.

The robots are watching over hotel housekeepers, telling them which room to clean and tracking how quickly they do it. They’re managing software developers, monitoring their clicks and scrolls and docking their pay if they work too slowly. They’re listening to call center workers, telling them what to say, how to say it, and keeping them constantly, maximally busy. While we’ve been watching the horizon for the self-driving trucks, perpetually five years away, the robots arrived in the form of the supervisor, the foreman, the middle manager. .... "