LibraryScenariosWhen automation leaves workers feeling purposeless
Scenario

When automation leaves workers feeling purposeless

Our manufacturing team has been replaced by automation over the past year and management keeps saying the remaining jobs are 'higher value' but we're all just monitoring machines and feel completely disconnected from making anything real. Nobody talks about how demoralizing this is.

Laozi
Online
The coach is replying

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A group of people discovering that efficiency gains can hollow out the meaning of work itself.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Industrial revolution and its human cost?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.