Most employees have a common concern whenever they hear about robotic process automation (RPA): job loss. Whenever a new technology makes its way, some roles become redundant. However, people often ignore that while technology does lead to some role redundancy, it creates many more jobs than it kills. RPA is no exception, even though its whole purpose is to take over from humans to perform repetitive and time-consuming tasks.

Why does Agile Managex Technologies feel that RPA will not consume jobs but create more? There are several reasons which we will discuss in detail here. Before doing so, we recommend you go through some must-read posts that will give you an overview of RPA, its benefits, and its limitations. The purpose is to provide you with enough knowledge about what RPA can do for your organisation.

• How Robotic Process Automation Benefits Back Office Processes
• Top Robotic Process Automation Trends 2023
• Which Processes Can You Automate Through Robotic Process Automation

Once you are done, let us review why we believe RPA is not a job killer.

How RPA Creates Jobs

RPA Requires New Resources

Whether you develop your RPA solution in-house or engage an RPA solution provider in UAE or elsewhere, you will need to hire resources to manage the solution. Why? After all, the RPA solution is only the beginning. Once the first bot is successful, you will start thinking about automating almost every organisational process. You may realise that outsourcing development and maintenance is not feasible for several reasons. It could be the cost or data security.

Productivity Boost

Secondly, the entire purpose of RPA is to boost productivity by performing time-consuming and monotonous work. Employees can shift their focus elsewhere when they no longer need to work on such low-value tasks. They have enough time and energy to focus on tasks that create organisational value. Secondly, if the senior assigns them an additional task, they can start working on it instantly. When the senior management realises that the employee is working on value-creation tasks and can meet their expectations, they have little to no reason to lay them off.

Growing Technology

Lastly, RPA is a growing technology. Over the next few years, you will see it combined with artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). What does it mean? With newer technologies, organisations will always look for employees who can help them improve their existing RPA solutions or add new features.

Conclusion

It concludes our views on why RPA is a job creator and not a destroy. We highly recommend you share this news with your employees before implementing RPA. It can improve your employees’ morale and reduce resistance to change. Undoubtedly, winning employee support can greatly increase the probability of RPA’s successful implementation.

However, we do ask employees to continuously upskill themselves. If you don’t work on improving yourself, a business will have no choice but to replace you with a more competent individual. Lastly, contact us if your organisation is looking for custom RPA solutions to automate key processes and realise its key benefits.

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