[Tarsul]

We don't need 100% automation to have a giant effect on employment. We can get to 90% automation and cut a lot of the workload of accountants which means in the long run less accountants overall. My expectation is that big companies will employ less and less accountants because for them it is worth it to invest in RPA (and better tooling) to cut their accountants workload (even with all the outsourcing that happens. e.g. some big companies in Germany like to outsource adminstrative tasks to eastern europe, there are quite a few eastern europeans willing to learn german for those jobs). For small shops with a handful of employees it's a different numbers game and I think the change there will be a lot slower. I don't know how the landscape of adminstrative jobs in offices will look like in 20 years but I think it's very important for (would-be) employees to have more skills than just being able to work as accountant or doing other adminstrative tasks at the PC. Actually, it scares me a bit (not so much for myself, yet, but for society and for the ability of the masses to get good jobs).