Job Automation: Pulling ‘Labor’ From Labor Day?
The arrival of Labor Day in a socially-distant landscape leaves us questioning what the future of our workforce will look like, particularly in the manufacturing sector. Boom Bust host Christy Ai explains how industrial automation may actually create more jobs than it would eliminate, and how human labor remains irreplaceable. Employees nationwide remain hunkered down in their work-from-home regimens, while companies have struggled to remedy supply-chain disruptions caused by travel restrictions under Covid. Could many businesses be "going global" no more? Strelmark founder Hilary Fordwich and CBS reporter Joe Connolly discuss the kinds of hard pivots seen across businesses, many of which may never return to "normal" operations.