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“not only for building a $3 billion tech empire in 1960s England, but for doing it with an all-female, work-from-home staff of professionally qualified women wh
by Jun8 3y ago
“not only for building a $3 billion tech empire in 1960s England, but for doing it with an all-female, work-from-home staff of professionally qualified women who had left the work force after marrying and having children.”
Tangentially, this part brought up an early thought that I had: tapping into a qualified workforce that for some reason got removed from work standard work opportunities. One such large group the one mentioned (at the time in the UK, probably less applicable now).
Another one that I usually think about is all the people with high levels of manufacturing expertise that got laid off in the US in the past decades, living in smaller towns. Would it be possible to tap into their knowledge remotely?
- hinkley 3y agoThere was a company maybe about 15 years ago that was looking to design solar panel array structures using automotive construction techniques. They essentially wanted to hire “surplus” autoworkers. I would think these days you’d be looking for the automation people as well.
- ddnb 3y agoInterestingly enough this thought was what made western europe (but various other parts of the world had something similar) transition from the guild system to the centralised factory system, essentially laying the foundation for industrialisation. Basically merchants realized there was a huge workforce outside the cities, families where wives and children had time left. So they purchased and place the worktools and resources with the individual families to later buy back the products they made and resell it in the markets. This was called the putting-out system if you want to look into it more.