Robots 'could replace 250,000 UK public sector workers'

Reform thinktank says sector could be ‘the next Uber’ and staff should embrace the gig economy amid rise in automationAlmost 250,000 public sector workers could lose their jobs to robots over the next 15 years, according to a new report which claims machines would be more efficient and save billions of pounds. Reform, a right-of-centre thinktank, says websites and artificial intelligence “chat bots” could replace up to 90% of Whitehall’s administrators, as well as t