Chris Bryant, Columnist

BMW Slows the March of the Robots

Profit getting squeezed and return on investment isn't yet clear

May 3, 2016 at 8:06 AM UTC

Chris Bryant is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering industrial companies in Europe. Previously, he was a reporter for the Financial Times.

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Are the robots going to take all the jobs? If automotive technology is your thing then it looks like yours is safe for now.

BMW's workforce expanded 4.4 percent over the past year to almost 123,000 employees, according to first quarter figures released on Tuesday.