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I’m surprised middle management still has much of a role with low skill jobs. Feed people instructions via app and fire them if they fail. Curious it me that r

• subradios 4y ago
  It has, but the salary isn't high enough to fire underperformers, because you get what you get at 10 dollars an hour. It's the reverse of the tech situation you're likely used to - where employers gatekeep as hard as they can and are always desperate. In retail etc there's no gatekeeping but there's also no quality guarantee
• eru 4y ago
  Feeding people instructions is actually hard. On the low end of the job market, being able to follow instructions, especially written instructions, is a skill that not everyone has. I suspect it's more economical to have a human supervisor instead of narrowing your applicant pool to people who can follow written instructions. (Replacing written instructions with video instructions etc doesn't make things much easier.) Similarly, common sense judgement is also a skill. It's easier to have a human supervisor embody some of that judgement, then to find a way to distill it all down into formal rules. In the context of your idea, that also means figuring out who is actually failing and needs to be fired. That all being said: for decades or even centuries the economy has already been moving in the direction you are suggesting. You don't need an app for that: just write down the rules on a piece of paper or even a clay tablet.