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> No, when non-human tasks get delegated to non-humans, human skills will be where humans will be most needed, and this goes in line with data presented, and is
by stdbrouw 11y ago
> No, when non-human tasks get delegated to non-humans, human skills will be where humans will be most needed, and this goes in line with data presented, and is fairly self-evident.
The point of simula67 is that the quintessential job that requires good interpersonal skills is management. Managers are there to manage technical workers. If there is less of a need for technical workers, managers have fewer people to manage, and you don't need interpersonal skills to machine-manage. The end result might be that we can cut out all of middle management, and that this "purge" will offset the higher (relative) demand for people with interpersonal skills in other areas of the workforce.
All very hypothetical and full of assumptions of course, but then, so is the original article.
- synthmeat 11y agoThere's orders of magnitude more consumer-facing jobs than there are managers, who, basically by definition, are always in smaller numbers. Analysis of statement "quintessential job that requires good interpersonal skills is management" will give me food for thought today, thanks. Not sure what I think about that. Some could argue that it's even anti-social role in a way.
- collyw 11y agoYou should see where I work! We have a "database" meeting every two weeks (though it end up being more of an "organizational workflow" meeting, which then gets implemented in my database application). There are about ten people who attend, all managers, except me. I have my team lead, and his manager. Everyone asks for requests to be implemented in the database and I am theonly one person to implement them. (Anyway it was getting crappy enough that I just quit).