What's the attitude of Spanish workers toward automation and what are they doing about it?

Abstract

Robotics, automation and artificial intelligence (RAAI) are changing the way work takes place. Logically, the increasing advances in technology and the speed with which changes occur have attracted academic and non-academic attention on the impact that technological change can have on employment. Research has focused, predominantly, on the impact of RAAI on the labor market, trying to calculate how many jobs can disappear or be created, and what are the characteristics of those jobs. In contrast, there is still a paucity of research on such impact from the employee's perspective, although in recent years studies have been emerging that focus on the workers' point of view. This paper contributes to this line of research, presenting the results of a survey of 1,559 active Spanish workers.