{"id":7907,"date":"2015-05-07T06:45:36","date_gmt":"2015-05-07T11:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=7907"},"modified":"2015-05-07T06:45:36","modified_gmt":"2015-05-07T11:45:36","slug":"chinese-company-moves-to-replace-90-of-its-workforce-with-robots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=7907","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Company Moves to Replace 90% of its Workforce with Robots"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"post-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/libertyblitzkrieg.com\/2015\/05\/06\/chinese-company-moves-to-replace-90-of-its-workforce-with-robots\/\" target=\"_blank\">Chinese Company Moves to Replace 90% of its Workforce with Robots<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>I\u2019m not one of those people who thinks robots taking over\u00a0menial labor from human employees is a bad thing. On the contrary, I think such a displacement could ultimately prove very positive for the species. Nevertheless, the short-term pain and suffering that this could cause for displaced workers and their families likely\u00a0will have tremendous negative repercussions to the societies that are most affected in the near and intermediate-term.<\/p>\n<p>Since robots entering the workforce is probably one of the most significant economic trends in the decades ahead, we should all start thinking about how to deal with what will be a major adjustment for hundreds of millions, if not billions, of people.<\/p>\n<p>From\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/enterprises\/article\/1786484\/building-work-starts-first-all-robot-manufacturing-plant-chinas\">the\u00a0<em>South China Morning Post<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Construction work has begun on the first factory in China\u2019s manufacturing hub of Dongguan to use only robots for production, the official Xinhua news agency reported.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>A total of 1,000 robots would be introduced at the factory initially, run by Shenzhen Evenwin Precision Technology Co, with the aim of reducing the current workforce of 1,800 by 90 per cent to only about 200<\/strong>, Chen Xingqi, the chairman of the company\u2019s board, was quoted as saying in the report.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/technology\/science-research\/article\/1754165\/robotics-industry-booming-guangdong-insiders\">Robots are set to take over in many factories in the Pearl River Delta<\/a>, the area of southern China known as the \u2018world\u2019s workshop\u2019 because of the huge export manufacturing industry there,\u00a0<strong>as labour shortages bite and local authorities face the need to spur innovation to counter the economic slowdown.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Since September, a total of 505 factories across Dongguan have invested 4.2 billion yuan in robots, aiming to replace more than 30,000 workers, according to the Dongguan Economy and Information Technology Bureau.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>By 2016, up to 1,500 of the city\u2019s industrial enterprises will began replacing humans with robots.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese Company Moves to Replace 90% of its Workforce with Robots I\u2019m not one of those people who thinks robots taking over\u00a0menial labor from human employees is a bad thing. On the contrary, I think such a displacement could ultimately prove very positive for the species. Nevertheless, the short-term pain and suffering that this could [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[130,260,477,478,2813,691,5233,786],"class_list":["post-7907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-china","tag-employment","tag-labor","tag-labour","tag-manufacturing","tag-robotics","tag-robots","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7907"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7908,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7907\/revisions\/7908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}