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s/from home,// - ftfy Any job or task can be outsourced, but there are tradeoffs involved. It’s nothing new.

sebular 6y ago
manual labor caregiver security retail anything in the service industry Why would I bother going on? Sloppy comments like yours have no place here.
- LeifCarrotson 6y ago
  All those things can be outsourced to other service contractors, none can be completely offshored.
- avmich 6y ago
  Good question. Let's see. Some manual work - e.g. some (some!) surgeon work - can be done via tele-presense. I mean, it's being done already. Some others kinds of manual work don't have good (or any) examples - human's hand is a beautifully complex machinery, we aren't close to replicating all its abilities yet. Caregivers - many aspects of that are done remotely. Checking status? Remote communications? Reminders, some diagnostics, scheduling of various help - from medical to lawn mowing. Again, not all - but we do have examples. Security. Come on, we have remote sensors of all kinds for decades. We have electronic passes, we have door control. Yes, someone need to show up when things are getting too interesting - we somehow hesitate to give robots the armed weapons. Mostly. But - we have non-trivial examples. Retail. Ah, that's interesting. I'd imagine those tele-presence tools, a screen on a stick on a moving platform, which can help with navigating the store, answer questions, show some information. There perhaps are better ideas, but some seem to be hanging relatively low. Service industry in general is quite big - would you, for example, consider working on a visual effects for a movie remotely an example of service - entertainment - industry? - but we do have many examples of that happening remotely. So... A good question, leads to interesting thoughts, where we have some good starts in some places and missing parts in others.

manual labor caregiver security retail anything in the service industry Why would I bother going on? Sloppy comments like yours have no place here.

LeifCarrotson 6y ago
All those things can be outsourced to other service contractors, none can be completely offshored.
avmich 6y ago
Good question. Let's see. Some manual work - e.g. some (some!) surgeon work - can be done via tele-presense. I mean, it's being done already. Some others kinds of manual work don't have good (or any) examples - human's hand is a beautifully complex machinery, we aren't close to replicating all its abilities yet. Caregivers - many aspects of that are done remotely. Checking status? Remote communications? Reminders, some diagnostics, scheduling of various help - from medical to lawn mowing. Again, not all - but we do have examples. Security. Come on, we have remote sensors of all kinds for decades. We have electronic passes, we have door control. Yes, someone need to show up when things are getting too interesting - we somehow hesitate to give robots the armed weapons. Mostly. But - we have non-trivial examples. Retail. Ah, that's interesting. I'd imagine those tele-presence tools, a screen on a stick on a moving platform, which can help with navigating the store, answer questions, show some information. There perhaps are better ideas, but some seem to be hanging relatively low. Service industry in general is quite big - would you, for example, consider working on a visual effects for a movie remotely an example of service - entertainment - industry? - but we do have many examples of that happening remotely. So... A good question, leads to interesting thoughts, where we have some good starts in some places and missing parts in others.