Ezra Awumey

Charting the Automation of Hospitality: An interdisciplinary literature review examining the evolution of frontline service work in the face of algorithmic management

Recent investments in automation and AI are reshaping the hospitality sector. Driven by social and economic forces affecting service delivery and an impulse to seek out efficiencies, these new technologies have transformed the labor that acts as the backbone to the industry—namely frontline service work performed by h…