As technology has continued to accelerate in recent decades, workers throughout many industries have faced an increasingly real threat of having their positions become obsolete, be it due to changing economic forces or new innovations that allow employers to replace them with automated processes. One recent innovation has been that of voice-activated hardware and software, specifically thinking of platforms such as Amazon's Alexa. Tech experts have said that this platform has spread rapidly, so much so that they expect it to become an even larger part of the way we interface with all things digital in the coming years. Even now in the early phase of this latest tech progression, some in the hospitality sector have embraced tech like Amazon's Alexa (or other products similar to it) in order to serve their guests. As a result of this, some hotel staff members have begun to worry that Amazon Alexa and other voice-activated platforms could soon replace them, greeting and attending to guests at the front desk the way humans generally do now.