sabine pfeiffer: conventional office jobs will be most affected. and i think that seems to have fallen under the radar of public attention. conventional office jobs will be most effective. clerical jobs, doing things on computers, jobs that don't need many qualifications, that are based on standardized processes. the step to automate those functions completely -- not just with machines but algorithms -- is relatively easy and will cut a lot of costs. >> many industries are affected. china is at the forefront of this development. taiwanese-based manufacturer foxconn, a major supplier of apple, has already acquired thousands of robots to do its work.. in this year alone, they've replaced 60,000 workers in their factories. soon, the company plans to deploy a million robots. 600 companies are following suit in kunshan, a mamajor chinese manufactcturing hub. sabine pfeiffer: on the one hand, these kinds of employee numbers are unheard of in germany. on the other hand we don't refer to china as a developing country anymore, but rather as an emerging econ