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By Laurianne McLaughlin – When you say “automation,” some IT people picture job-stealing robots. IT leaders will need to know how to allay that worry in the months and years to come. But here’s a piece of good news: Some forward-looking IT leaders are finding automation actually has talent retention benefits, as David Egts, chief technologist, North America Public Sector, Red Hat, recently wrote.

“Automation is an effective way to help businesses become more resilient, but it also helps retain the key talent you have and attract new talent to up-level your team,” Egts notes. How? Teams that have made progress on the automation journey are seeing benefits including an increased sense of belonging, for example:

“Many organizations have gone from siloed automation to automation communities of practice that span these silos. Instead of tasks being manually executed or even automated in isolated pockets of an organization, an automation community of practice lets everyone share their best ideas and build on each other’s work.

So rather than belonging to the employee, the processes belong to the community of practice with authorship attribution back to the author. Plus, the community contributors identify with the community because their contributions and spans of influence visibly and positively impact the entire organization in ways they couldn’t do as individuals,” said Egts. Read On: