"automation wave" is a correct phrase in written English.
You would use it to refer to the recent trend of businesses automating various processes in their operations. For example, you could say "The automation wave of the past few years has changed the way businesses operate."
Automobiles, other transport and industrial equipment of all denominations are now test beds for microelectronics, with comparable forthcoming results as from the office automation wave begun four decades ago that ushered in untold productivity throughout the workforce.
A second negative consequence expected to result from the evolving automation wave is a growing segregation of the labor market into a relatively small high-skill/high-pay segment and a much bigger low-skill/low-pay segment due to a hollowing-out of mid-level skill/middle income jobs – a trend that began at least two decades ago but is likely to be accelerated in the near future [9].
The machine was seen as the leading lip of an automation wave transforming hospitals.
But he thinks more automation is the wave of the future.
In the realm of ideas, all of these rationales today command new attention because of some very contemporary fears about new-wave automation and the apparent unravelling of the old social contract that used to sustain the welfare state, in the days before Benefit Street.
The next wave of automation is going after jobs in exactly those sectors.
The first wave of automation replaced blue collars jobs in manufacturing.
And on Thursday the Bank of England's chief economist warned that this wave of automation is threatening skilled roles.
Service and care work, where hope for some appeared to lie, will be threatened by a further wave of automation, as service robots – commercial and domestic – take over.
Read this excellent insight into the coming wave of automation and why it will revolutionise the way we live and work today.
The coming wave of automation, currently stalled because our social infrastructure cannot bear the consequences, will hugely diminish the amount of work needed – not just to subsist but to provide a decent life for all.
