Workers of the world, happy new year — the robots are coming! Artificial intelligence is steadily encroaching into the workplace, write Natalie Pierce and Garry Mathiason in this issue of Today’s General Counsel. They say the projected growth rate for this phenomenon is astounding, making it imperative that at least one in-house attorney in every company become knowledgeable about the issues it raises. Philip R. Voluck takes on another workplace conflict nexus in which change is happening, but he says not fast enough. Courts have ruled that many things the #MeToo movement finds intolerable don’t add up to behavior that is “severe, pervasive and unwelcome” (and therefore illegal). The courts are slowly adopting new norms, according to Voluck.
