Data Indicates That Factories Using Robots Actually Are Requiring More Humans To Run Them

Car-industry employees concerned that robots will put them out of work needn’t worry -- at least for now. 

Of the 13 publicly traded automakers with at least 100,000 workers at the end of their most-recent fiscal year, 11 had more staff compared with year-end 2013, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Combined, they had 3.1 million employees, or 11 percent more than four years earlier, the data show.

PUGPROUD - 9/19/2018 11:46:11 AM

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Imagine that!

TomM - 9/19/2018 12:48:42 PM

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I guess that nobody thought that mechanical devices made by human beings might actually have flaws or otherwise need repair - or even a software update or ten - so they forgot to make a repair robot - and had to hire humans to do it - after they had to get them made by humans to begin with. AND of course - these "repair" jobs actually pay more than the Assembly line jobs the robots replaced.

MrEE - 9/19/2018 8:26:56 PM

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More interesting is VW with 50% more employees than Toyota.

MrEE - 9/21/2018 6:55:35 PM

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The point they are trying to make is that assumed increase in manufacturing robots have not appear to have reduced employment. A stretch given output, number of production employees and number of robots added is not included.