Investigation into the degree of automatization, it's effects and attitude towards it at 830 firms in the province of Limburg Type of firm / number of employees / expectations regarding increase or decrease in number of employees / use of automatization equipment, computers and expected use / duration of use of computers / sections relying heavily on computers / dedicated automatization department present and its size / in house software development / organizational change due to automatization / schooling, training made necessary by automatization: internal versus external, government-subsidized, problems / considerations regarding buying new equipment and advice regarding this / training-strategy for personnel / criteria for offering training facilities to employees / vacancies induced by automatization / problems getting skilled employees / selection criteria / attitudes towards several aspects of automatization / employment exchange: relations, satisfaction, preferred activities of it in solving employment problems.