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The Robots are Here

A new study by the Association for Advancing Automation found that American companies have ordered a record number of robots in 2021. Factories in North American ordered 29,000 robots, valued at $1.48 billion this year. A 37% increase from last year!

4 million employees missing

Labour markets are complicated: “many firms have struggled to lure back workers displaced by the pandemic and view robots as an alternative to adding human muscle on their assembly lines.”

The bottom line - four million workers are missing from the US economy–choosing, perhaps, not to return to low-quality jobs after the pandemic.

Marty Thomas

Marty Thomas

Marty has spent most of the last 20 years developing software in the marketing space and creating pathways for software systems to talk to each other with high efficiency. He heads our digital marketing efforts as well as oversees any technology implementations for our clients. As a partner, Marty is also responsible for internal systems in which help our team communicates with each other and our clients.