“In many cases, jobs that used to be done by people are going to be able to be done through automation. I don’t have an answer to that. That’s one of the more perplexing problems of society.” —John Sculley When AI Agents are good enough, we will see the elimination of many business functions related to bookkeeping and administrative tasks first. "The centralization process can also create specialists, which can add efficiency. “In a lot of cases, if you’re at the right scale, you can bring one person into the corporate office and focus on collections and bad debt, and they are really specialized in doing that,” said Spencer Gray, CEO of Indianapolis-based apartment owner and operator Gray Capital. “That’s not always an easy job.”  At Atlanta-based apartment manager The RADCO Cos., assistant managers oversaw move-outs, deposit accounting and high-level ledger interactions. However, the firm developed a specialized group to handle those tasks, eliminating the need for the position at individual properties. “We have rolled all of that to a central processing unit at our corporate headquarters in Atlanta,” senior vice president of operations Chris Simon told Multifamily Dive." https://lnkd.in/e6u9urs6