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 TeMPOraL on Monday October 31, 2022 @08:37PM (#33415432)

> AFAI can tell, the effect of tech overall is to cut some jobs while making the remaining ones harder and more stressful, while increasing so-called context switching.

100% agree.

The Office suite is, in some ways, the worst thing that happened to corporations. Thanks to computers, everyone can now easily write a report, fill in a spreadsheet, or manage their meetings. Which means that everyone now has to write reports, fill in spreadsheets and manage their calendars. This used to be a separate job. You had people specializing in those tasks, and they were focused and efficient at it. Now, everyone does it on their own, and not only we suck at this, it's also distracting us from the "main" job we're supposed to be doing.

The older I get, the more I feel computer revolution was in big part a bait-and-switch.

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Re:U.S. workers have gotten way less productive. No one is s... by chiefalchemist on Monday October 31, 2022 @09:10PM (#33415732)

Great point(s). There's no longer the barrier to entry. No longer a belief that just because you can doesn't mean you should. That behaviour gets reinforced because doing X or Y is easy, that lack of friction builds a bias that the end product / output is 10x better than it really is.

You're not the only one with that bait and switch feeling.

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