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On-the-job training emerged because there was no way for workers to gain certain skills they needed without working under a corporation. Sometimes the limiter
by true_religion 14y ago
On-the-job training emerged because there was no way for workers to gain certain skills they needed without working under a corporation.
Sometimes the limiter was capital expenses....You couldn't go to your toolshed and train on how to work in a steel mill, so instead you got trained on the job.
Sometimes the limiter was social.... such as with lawyers---they receive on the job training because you can't just graduate and start taking cases for "practice".
On-the-job training will remain alive and well for people who are hiring into specialized positions (e.g. database scaling specialists, engineers for financial firms, anything to do with hardware, etc.).
Why do you think it's dead?
- scrame 14y agoBecause highly specialized jobs are a vast minority. OP was talking about retail jobs, not "database scaling specialists".
- forensic 14y agoIt's very easy to train for eg steel mill work in eg community colleges. Specialized jobs can easily have their training outsourced. When a job pays >minimum wage OTJ training can be paid fr by an apprentice paycut. When a job pays close to minimum wage, this is impossible, so the OTJ training is outsourced and the employee must pay out of pocket. This amounts to a paycut--an innovation of the market in response to the artificial market distorting minimum wage.