In a World of Robots, Carmakers Persist in Hiring More Humans
- People still needed amid auto industry’s rapid transformation
- Major car companies boosted staff by 11% over past four years
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Car-industry employees concerned that robots will put them out of work needn’t worry -- at least for now.
Of the 13 publicly traded automakers with at least 100,000 workers at the end of their most-recent fiscal year, 11 had more staff compared with year-end 2013, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Combined, they had 3.1 million employees, or 11 percent more than four years earlier, the data show.