While there has been a lot of talk about automation in the workplace over the past couple of years, and even more so since last March and the emergence of the COVID-19, it has been hard to quantify how automation is impacting the digital workplace and the way people are working. Recently, Bellevue, Wash.-based Nintex published a study aimed at shedding some light on automation and what it brings to the organization.
Support For Automation
Entitled the Nintex Workplace 2021 Study, the findings are based on a survey of 1,000 U.S.-based full-time enterprise employees working remotely in the fall who were asked to identify what needs to improve with remote work. The study covered all kinds of issues impacting on the digital workplace and digital workers, but in terms of automation the findings are striking. Overall, it showed workers are actually open to automating more tasks with more than one-third (37%) of respondents stating they could be even more productive with easy-to-use automation software. And there are other findings too: