U.S. workers have gotten way less productive. No one is sure why

Re:U.S. workers have gotten way less productive. No one is s... by AussieWog93 on Monday October 31, 2022 @04:34PM (#33412598)

>This is when I formed my “never replace a terminal based app, with a GUI based app and expect productivity gains” theory.

Not in medicine (run a small e-commerce business selling mostly used video games), but definitely noticed the same thing for us.

We have some terminal-based Python scripts I wrote to automate a lot of the data entry tasks like listing and shipping (entering tracking numbers, printing labels).

Everyone that uses the scripts is initially apprehensive, but then after maybe a day of getting used to the terminal turns into a powerful data entry God and they love it. Even had an employee gush about our shipping tool to a random supplier.

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Re:U.S. workers have gotten way less productive. No one is s... by Smoosh on Monday October 31, 2022 @07:01PM (#33414555)

Back in the late '80s the government department I worked at had a dedicated data entry team with their own system (hardware and all).

The greenscreen data entry was highly optimised to not even require tabbing to different fields, but just run the values together in a large single field and the software would split them into fields and validate them.

I assume it was very fast and efficient for the experienced operators.

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