Will HR Become Irrelevant in the Digital Age?
The Digital Age, with the convergence of several advancing technologies, will fundamentally change how we live and how we work. Automation will significantly reduce the number of human employees, because human beings will be needed only to do the tasks that technology can’t do well. At least for the near future, those tasks will include: being creative, imaginative, and innovative; exploring the unknown; engaging in higher-order critical thinking; making decisions in environments with lots of uncertainty and little data; and emotionally connecting in positive ways with other human beings in the collaborative creation and delivery of services and products.
All of those tasks are heavily influenced by the uniquely…
