New inventions often make people's jobs easier and faster. Many such inventions also threaten occupations by replacing human workers. As technology booms, the need for human intervention lessens. For instance, messaging and calendar programs have replaced many receptionists and secretaries, and table-mounted touchscreens at restaurants mean that fewer servers are needed.
Sometimes there are new opportunities that surface as a result of new technology. Obviously, the personal computer has led to additional jobs to support the industry.
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Automation is one such area that has tremendous potential for benefits as well as job loss. In the IT realm, automation involves examples such as scripts, scheduled tasks, password reset portals, operating system deployment, configuration management and elaborate monitoring capabilities. By automating these tasks, companies can free up system admins, developers and other IT staff to do other jobs.
But it also can lead to job loss, particularly those related to basic operations. To find out the impact that automation is having on IT, Tech Pro Research conducted a survey and talked to 353 respondents to find out what, where and how they are automating, where automation isn't a fit, and how and where automation has impacted jobs at their organization.
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Topics covered in the Tech Pro Research's report, The Future of IT Jobs: How to beat the machines, include:
- Reasons against automation
- Jobs at risk due to automation
- Company training for new roles
- How jobs are evolving within organizations
- Who is using automation
- Who plans to use automation
- Departments using automating
- Systems or objects being automated
Who is using automation
