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The outsourcing boom did this, not automation. Dogsbody type work is routinely offshored rather than being given to local juniors. Every company I've worked a
by pytester 8y ago
The outsourcing boom did this, not automation.
Dogsbody type work is routinely offshored rather than being given to local juniors.
Every company I've worked at in the last 3 years bar one has had a component of their workforce doing this kind of work - in the philippines or india.
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- abakker 8y agoAutomation is just "Outsourcing to a computer" Seen that way, many outsourcing companies are just a halfway house to stuff that isn't quite fully automatable yet, but which might become so soon.
- pytester 8y agoIME the work broke down into three groups: 1) QA - the tech industry bleats about its automation putting people out of work and then creates millions of jobs mindlessly clicking buttons. shrug 2) Lean startup - creating jobs that are designed to be automated but giving them to Indians to do manually first to test if the idea has legs and the job is even worth doing. This type of work isn't going anywhere even if the individual jobs get automated (as they were designed to be). 3) Semi-skilled work - reading contracts and picking out relevant terms. So far most attempts at solving this problem have been a riotous joke.