According to a report, by 2022, IT corporations will have eliminated 3 million jobs owing to automation.

According to the article, the move will save them a stunning $100 billion yearly, largely in salaries.

According to a survey, with automation moving at a far faster pace across industries, notably in the IT sphere, domestic software enterprises with over 16 million employees are on track to cut headcounts by a colossal 3 million by 2022, saving them a huge $100 billion in pay yearly.

According to Nasscom, the domestic IT sector employs over 16 million people, with roughly 9 million of them working in low-skilled services and BPO roles.

By 2022, 30% of these 9 million low-skilled services and BPO jobs will be lost, or roughly 3 million, owing to the influence of robot process automation, or RPA. According to a Bank of America analysis released on Wednesday, RPA will replace roughly 0.7 million jobs, with the rest attributable to other technical upgrades and up skilling by local IT players. RPA will have the greatest impact in the US, with nearly 1 million jobs lost.

According to the paper, this will free up roughly $100 billion in annual salaries and associated expenses for corporations based on average fully-loaded employee costs of $25,000 per year for India-based resources and $50,000 for US-based resources.

“TCS, Infosys, Wipro, HCL, Tech Mahindra, and Cognizant, among others, look to be planning a 3 million drop in low-skilled employment by 2022 as a result of RPA up-skilling,” according to the report.

“This represents a $100 billion savings in pay and other costs, but it also represents a $10 billion bonanza for IT companies that successfully use RPA, as well as a $5 billion potential from a thriving new software niche by 2022.” According to the paper, because robots can work 24 hours a day, this implies a considerable cost savings of up to 10:1 over human labour.

RPA is the use of software rather than physical robots to execute routine, high-volume activities, allowing employees to focus on more distinctive jobs. It differs from other software products in that it mimics how employees operate rather than integrating a workflow into technology from the bottom up, cutting time to market and drastically lowering costs.

RPA is the use of software rather than physical robots to execute routine, high-volume activities, allowing employees to focus on more distinctive jobs. It varies from other software programmes in that it imitates the employee’s work style rather than constructing a workflow into technology from the ground up, lowering time to market and cost significantly compared to more typical software-led approaches.

India’s manufacturing peak was in 2002, while Germany’s was in 1970 and Mexico’s was in 1990.