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Re:The diminishing returns of productivity culture (2021) by patrck on Friday May 06, 2022 @09:16PM (#31291299)
> Technology robbed workers’ of what had been highly valued physical knowledge about a job: the precise way to jimmy a stuck gear, the sound a machine makes when something’s about to break.

lol. I run IT. Nobody at my workplace knows what I do.

Contrary to TFA, my automation gains accrue to myself and my company. It seems difficult to see this as anything but win-win. I get respite and time to think, and my company gets improved responses and uptime.

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Re:The diminishing returns of productivity culture (2021) by orangepurple on Friday May 06, 2022 @10:52PM (#31291759)
It's an incredibly impressive phenomenon considering the Internet has been popular for 20-30 years now and you would think people have a clue.
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Re:The diminishing returns of productivity culture (2021) by patrck on Friday May 06, 2022 @11:31PM (#31291935)
A couple reasons maybe:

Specialization means everyone's chasing their own frontiers in their companies, which leads to less toe-stepping?

"Everyone knows" IT is complex. So as long as things are working, there's no real impetus for other people in the company to sully their shirtsleeves.

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