Automation if often regarded as a threat to human workforce around the world. But many intellectuals will contradict the statement because it is next to impossible to automate everything especially in corporate work culture. This is because human intervention will always be required to program the software, robots and everything that runs as machine. From time to time there have been discussions conducted to evaluate the effects of automation in various sectors and industries. Automation is not entirely bad because at present we can see how programmed robots are helping the automobile industry, how technology has enabled people to search anything from literally everywhere, how aviation industry is making use of automation to increase safety of passengers. You can probably say automation is present at every level of today’s work culture.
So what this automation means for the human resources? Will it be a threat to human resources workforce? Will the future of human resources be human free? Well the answer is a big “NO”. To understand this you have to understand that the advantages of integrating automation in the human resources are more than the disadvantages. The thing is that if automation is integrated to a certain level it will only affects the workforce strategy. On the other hand automation will vastly expand the potential and will transform the traditional functions like training, hiring and administration. 
Automation certainly will simplify the complex processes involved in managing database, keeping track of employees, preparing policies, communicating with different hierarchy and departments. Overall complex processes of managing humongous human resources tasks can be simplified with swift information flow with the help of automation. With automation of human resources organizations will be able to create, streamline, integrate and deploy many processes and services easily at a very low cost.  You can understand it better by looking at the advantages of human resources automation.        
1. With automation, employees can be engaged more and hence it will reduce the employee turnover. 
2. Automation will bring quick procession and data sharing thus will improve the productivity. 
3. The risk of policy violations can be reduced to minimum with automation as everything is easy to track.
4. Paper based processing can be lowered down and will save a lot of storage and print cost for the organizations. 
5. The cost involved in hiring process will also reduce with automation. 
6.  Data lost or data entry errors will also be reduced. 
7. Automation will help in generating insightful reports to make smart business decisions ultimately leading to organizational expansion.      
8. With automation the collaboration with stake holders can be increased to hire and train more skilled employees. 
9. Automation will help to utilize HR data to make smart business decisions. 
Automation in human resources is certainly more beneficial than the disadvantages. But not opting for automation and sticking to manual work in human resources will rather bring adversity than good. Without automation the lost in efficiency is the major disadvantage, the overall processes involved in human resources will be prone to errors, employee retention will be a major concern, communication to various departments and hierarchy level will disrupt. 
So we can conclude that automation will not threat the workforce but rather it will bring in more accuracy and increase the workforce accountability.