TomTom to cut 10% of jobs due to improved automation

Re:TomTom to cut 10% of jobs due to improved automation by ben_w on Wednesday June 01, 2022 @09:34AM (#31581595)

I remember hearing much the same words (cf. “My job is to make myself redundant”) in 2004.

I’m fairly sure this was the goal at least as far back as when ship builders switched from high-skilled artisans to carve each pulley for the sails individually and by hand, to using jigs so that low-skilled carpenters could make a lot that were almost as good for a fraction of the price.

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Re:TomTom to cut 10% of jobs due to improved automation by jopsen on Wednesday June 01, 2022 @09:47AM (#31581755)

> when ship builders switched from high-skilled artisans to carve each pulley for the sails individually and by hand, to using jigs so that low-skilled carpenters could make a lot...

Sounds like an interesting story, do you have a link :D

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Re:TomTom to cut 10% of jobs due to improved automation by hef19898 on Wednesday June 01, 2022 @05:57PM (#31588666)

I can recommend the book "Better, faster, cheaper - history of manufavturing" which covers this topic among basically manufacturing going to the, literally, stone age.

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Re:TomTom to cut 10% of jobs due to improved automation by ben_w on Wednesday June 01, 2022 @11:29AM (#31583299)

Sadly not, it was from a TV documentary

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