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In this case, the man-hours per bridge drop. But how many man-hours were available in the field pre-computer? So now we've got excess man-hours and we've got a choice. Either move those man-hours to higher value tasks OR release the bridgespanneteers from the job.

And that's the conundrum we face with automation where we remove bottlenecks, and we can't retask the capacity.



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