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The future of professional work: will you be replaced, or will you be sitting next to a robot?

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posted on 2017-03-17, 11:40 authored by Ian HerbertIan Herbert, Aravindhan Dhayalan, Andy Scott
There has been much talk about the use of robotics within professional functions such as finance, HR, procurement, etc especially when change is driven by the shared services model. This article explores the often overlapping concepts of work automation and robotic technology before considering the possibilities for transforming the way professional work might be carried out in future.

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  • Business and Economics

Department

  • Business

Published in

Management Services Journal

Volume

2016

Issue

Summer

Pages

22 - 27 (6)

Citation

HERBERT, I., DHAYALAN, A. and SCOTT, A., 2016. The future of professional work: will you be replaced, or will you be sitting next to a robot? Management Services Journal, 2016 (Summer), pp. 22 - 27.

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© Institute of Management Services

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  • VoR (Version of Record)

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Acceptance date

2016-06-01

Publication date

2016

Notes

Reproduced with kind permission of the Institute of Management Services, Management Services Journal.

Language

  • en

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