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I know some people working in low-cost sweatshops, where human labour is cheaper than automation, everyone is told they can be replaced within days, and the few
by pzmarzly 2y ago
I know some people working in low-cost sweatshops, where human labour is cheaper than automation, everyone is told they can be replaced within days, and the few machines you may find are usually older than the employees (or better yet, contractors) operating them.
Every sweatshop like that has high turnover rates, and micromanaging bosses that... let's say make sure these rates don't fall.
If these bosses are the target audience, then I guess the ad is well made? Identify bad employees faster so you can hire better ones quicker, yada yada. I can imagine how this promise can make someone want to buy the software, so fair play for the ad creators, I guess?
I really hope this project fails though.
- karel-3d 2y agowell the iPhones won't make themselves
- makeitdouble 2y agoI was wondering how many humans still touch an iPhone during it's production in a Foxconn factory. Looking at this 2023 article[0], a lot. 35000 workers on three factories in India, solely dedicated to produce recent gen iPhones, with depcting of manual assembly down to screwing parts. I was expecting they automatized a lot more. https://restofworld.org/2023/foxconn-india-iphone-factory/ https://restofworld.org/2023/foxconn-india-iphone-factory/
- philipwhiuk 2y agoThey pay so little it's cheaper not to.
- causal 2y agoTools like this exist because of people who don't take Goodhart's law seriously. Turn efficiency into a convenient metric, target that metric, and next thing you know problems keep cropping up despite your efficiency numbers being so high!
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- makeitdouble 2y agoI think it's more a leftover of Taylorism, where you cut tasks into bits small enough to not need craft and have an army of untrained and exchangeable workers do it. Workers don't have enough agency to significantly pervert the metrics. They can cut corners and/or work slower, but that's not inherently related to the metrics, and there is no long term view for the workers in the first place.
- rudasn 2y agoScientific Management. It's one of those areas of study where one can easily miss the forest for the trees. It sounds so good, it must be right!