'The idea technology leads to unemployment is wrong'

By Gokhan Ergocun and Tuba Sahin</p> <p>BURSA, Turkey (AA) – The idea that technology will cause unemployment is mistaken, according to the chairwoman of Hepsiburada, Turkey's leading e-commerce platform.</p> <p>&quot;The definition of unemployment should be changed. What we now call unemployment in the future could be a new job,&quot; Hanzade Dogan Boyner told the 8th Uludag Economy Summit in Bursa, northwestern Turkey, on Friday.</p> <p>Technology should be part of corporate culture, and companies should be work to keep pace with the digital era, she underlined.</p> <p>She added: &quot;Sectors and companies which no one expected to collapse disappeared in the digital era.&quot;</p> <p>Policymakers, the business world, and opinion leaders must discuss the management of new technology, she underlined.</p> <p>Also speaking at the summit, Tansu Yegen, technology firm UiPath's vice president for Europe, said companies that use software robots gain momentum and become more competitive.</p> <p>Yegen underlined that such software robots do not mean firing employees but generating employment.</p> <p>&quot;Most digital projects failed due to this fallacy. Digital robots create nearly 50 percent additional employment capacity,&quot; he said.</p> <p>The two-day Uludag Economy Summit, which ends on Saturday, focuses on industry, trade, manufacturing, finance, energy, agriculture, and technology.</p> <p>The summit attracts businesspeople, economists, top officials and academics from Turkey and around the world.