Corporations are deploying AI systems to manage workers. Chatbots. Humanoids. Automated management platforms that decide your pay without ever meeting you. The future of work looks like getting fired by something that runs on electricity and can't spell your name right.
Someone has to maintain these things. Someone has to negotiate when the robot manager glitches and schedules everyone for a 47-hour shift on Christmas. That someone will work in robot relations. Not human resources. Robot resources. The department that troubleshoots why the AI chatbot keeps telling employees to go f*ck themselves in the company Slack.
Worker autonomy is collapsing. Your pay gets determined by an algorithm trained on data from 2019 when everything was cheaper and everyone was miserable for different reasons. The AI doesn't care that you have a mortgage. It doesn't care that you showed up on time for six years. It saw that Kevin in accounting submitted his expense reports faster than you and decided he deserves your raise.
This is what happens when you let management consultants pitch cost savings through automation. They sell the dream of efficiency. No more messy human emotions. No more bothering with empathy or context or remembering that Patricia in sales has three kids and can't work Sundays. Just clean data and merciless optimization.
The robot relations department will be one guy named Derek with an IT degree who has to explain to the CEO why the humanoid receptionist keeps asking visitors if they've accepted Jesus Christ as their personal savior. Derek will make $62,000 a year. The AI system that replaced fifteen employees cost $8 million to implement. The CFO will call this progress during the earnings call.
Your job will be managed by something that has never experienced hunger, fear, or the urge to call in sick because you drank too much on a Wednesday.
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