The year 2020 was a watershed moment for automation. The challenges posed by the global pandemic – in which many businesses had to move operations remotely, nearly overnight – forced CIOs to turbocharge digital transformation and start executing on their 2025 digital transformation strategies – five years earlier than many had planned.
A May 2020 report from Forrester Research asserted that the pandemic resulted in a shift in "automation psychology" that will spark an 18- to-24-month period of rapidly accelerating automation.