AI is going to become huge. So it's going to be real easy to lay off remote workers?
There was a book published 10 years or so called "Bullshit Jobs". It pointed out that a huge percentage of modern jobs are just boring, repetitive work, done in cubicles, for no reason which is truly crucial for a company's survival.
Jobs in transportation, banking, insurance, law, advertising, politics (!), and lots more are often like this. People tapping on keyboards to create documents and ledgers and charts which no one really looks at or needs. You can be in the office, you can be remote. Doesn't matter. Because this type of work really doesn't matter. But millions of people are employed, doing this work that doesn't matter.
And AI can do it better, faster, cheaper. It's boring, mindless, repetitive work.
I think the number of eventual layoffs is going to be huge. Within the next 5 years.
“AI is going to become huge.”
But not yet. I just tried Microsoft’s entry into the market. I figured I would try something easy like the value of an automobile. Any of us could look up that value on KBB or check prices on Autotrader or other car sales sites on the Internet. It missed by 75%. The KBB was $16K and the AI said $2,300. I couldn’t find one like it in the USA for less than $10K.
Something’s not adding up. People are not that much more efficient when it comes to remote work.
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Maybe, just maybe, the lazy brain donor ones are not making their contribution to ‘work’, thus improving the overall output and product.