Curated and analyzed by the JobGoneToAI team. Original reporting by automationworld.com.
Automation Workforce Faces Hiring Freezes and Increased Workloads Amid AI Concerns
— automationworld.com
Key Takeaway
The Automation World salary and career survey reveals a cautious but resilient workforce in the automation sector, with many professionals experiencing increased workloads and hiring freezes. While AI is acknowledged, it is not the primary concern for most engineers, who face challenges related to talent shortages and economic uncertainty.
From the Original Report
Covering industrial automation for the discrete and batch manufacturing industries. For the first time in its history, Automation World conducted a salary and career survey of its audience.
This had not been done in the past as our audience is extremely varied and includes titles ranging from manufacturing executives and directors to plant management and IT leadership to engineering management and production operations.
Looking broadly at our audience, we knew the variety of titles, pay scales and career trajectories would be too divergent to make sense in an all-encompassing survey. However, as Automation World is now part of Endeavor Business Media’s manufacturing and engineering group, we were able to conduct a survey that focused predominantly on the
engineering and operations roles in our audience. Before getting into the insights provided by the survey, let’s first look at who responded from among our audience. From more than 100 respondents to this lengthy and detailed survey, automation and controls engineers made up the largest single group at 35%, followed by design and development
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