Employees would lose job to robots than people

London: Most people find the idea of workers being replaced by robots or software worse than if the jobs are taken over by other workers. But when their own job is at stake, people prefer to be replaced by robots than by another employee, says a study. The study aims to analyse how workers react to being replaced by technology. For this, researchers conducted 11 scenarios studies and surveys with over 2,000 persons from several countries in Europe and North America. “Even when unemployment results from the introduction of new technologies, people still judge it in a social context,” said study researcher Christoph Fuchs, Professor at the Technical University of Munich, Germany.

The study shows that most people view it more favourably when workers are replaced by other people than by robots or intelligent software. This preference reverses, however, when it refers to people’s own jobs. (IANS)

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