Capita replacing 2,000 staff with robots

The age of automation is coming early at Capita: with shares at a ten-year low, forcing the firm to issue a second profit warning in three months, 2,000 jobs will be cut and the money saved will be go into investment in automated technology company-wide.

The company expects pre-tax profits for this year to be £515million, down from the prediction of between £535million and £555million three months ago.