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Work life in the robotic age

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Technological change results in changes in expectations, in this case affecting the workplace.

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            cover image Communications of the ACM
            Communications of the ACM  Volume 53, Issue 7
            July 2010
            133 pages
            ISSN:0001-0782
            EISSN:1557-7317
            DOI:10.1145/1785414
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