{"id":120346,"date":"2021-03-08T20:23:20","date_gmt":"2021-03-09T04:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/the-robots-are-coming-for-phil-in-accounting"},"modified":"2021-03-08T20:23:20","modified_gmt":"2021-03-09T04:23:20","slug":"the-robots-are-coming-for-phil-in-accounting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/the-robots-are-coming-for-phil-in-accounting","title":{"rendered":"The Robots Are Coming for Phil in Accounting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-robots-are-coming-for-phil-in-accounting2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Most of this automation is being done by companies you\u2019ve probably never heard of. UiPath, the largest stand-alone automation firm, is valued at $35 billion \u2014 roughly the size of eBay \u2014 and is slated to go public later this year. Other companies like Automation Anywhere and Blue Prism, which have Fortune 500 companies like Coca-Cola and Walgreens Boots Alliance as clients, are also enjoying breakneck growth, and tech giants like Microsoft have recently introduced their own automation products to get in on the action.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Workers with college degrees and specialized training once felt relatively safe from automation. They aren\u2019t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of this automation is being done by companies you\u2019ve probably never heard of. UiPath, the largest stand-alone automation firm, is valued at $35 billion \u2014 roughly the size of eBay \u2014 and is slated to go public later this year. Other companies like Automation Anywhere and Blue Prism, which have Fortune 500 companies like [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}