Workers may soon be expected to know how make "bots" that automate parts of their own jobs, according to Deloitte Consulting.

Marc Mancher runs a Deloitte team that trains government employees to create "software bots" that automatically do paperwork like mass invoicing. He told Axios that, as a carryover, members of his staff now create bots that streamline their own jobs, and that that will become a standard skill in the workforce in the near-term.

How this will work: Some workers will need to know how to write code from scratch, but most will manage this transition without that skill. Instead, to the degree that a demonstration of bot-making at Deloitte's Arlington, Virginia, office is a window into this future, cookie-cutter bot-making businesses are likely to arise. They will make off-the-shelf bot-makers. So that turning those into actual working bots that begin to churn through your routine paperwork could require only a level or two of more skill than needed today to create an Excel spreadsheet.