Re:The Decline of Computers as a General Purpose Technology ...
by ethbr1 on Sunday October 22, 2023 @02:01PM
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> Quite likely she will be punished for it, directly or indirectly.
Not at most modern companies in the real world.
Jobs have already been so hyper-specialized that you have minimal staff "managing" large portions of the company, amortized over a large number of locations / amount of business.
Consequently, if a job task is taken off their plate, there are innumerable additional tasks to backfill the free time.
And critically, tasks that are probably more intellectually fulfilling than the lowest-hanging-fruit rote tasks that are automated.
Not at most modern companies in the real world.
Jobs have already been so hyper-specialized that you have minimal staff "managing" large portions of the company, amortized over a large number of locations / amount of business.
Consequently, if a job task is taken off their plate, there are innumerable additional tasks to backfill the free time.
And critically, tasks that are probably more intellectually fulfilling than the lowest-hanging-fruit rote tasks that are automated.