đžđđđđ đżđđđThere is zero need for millions of office drones to be on the road daily.
MinotaurHonestly I think weâre going to hit a wall where we realize we need about half as many âoffice dronesâ as we have in a couple years.
So many people with office jobs drive in, sit at a desk, and do maybe 2 hours of actual work in the entire day. Or they work from home and do the same. And then they collect their 95k/year salary.
I really dunno if people are prepared for businesses to start going âwait, what are all of these people doing?â And axing their workforce and replacing most of them with AI or existing other employees
The thing youâre not accounting for is that work that primarily involves thought, which is what âoffice dronesâ are doing, arenât productive in the same way that physical or service jobs are.
Looking off into space thinking is part of the work. People average about four hours of productive work in an eight hour day.
The thing you canât do is get rid of half the people and then expect the other half to magically be eight hours productive per day. Businesses keep trying and weirdly it just tanks their output.
AI is not the panacea that so many people think it is. Do you feel happy when you need help with something you bought and you get an AI trying to offer you helpful articles or tips? I donât. Do you want the same level of service from the entity that controls where your paycheck gets deposited or fixed your HSA contributions?
If you definition of work is butts in chairs typing, office workers donât do too much work. But thatâs a very naive definition of what most office workers are actually doing.
ladfrombrad đŹđ§The thing youâre not accounting for is that work that primarily involves thought, which is what âoffice dronesâ are doing
Found the office drone.
Our office drones are not âthinkingâ for half the day like you, and input and manipulate data. You could also include half these âmanagersâ too who sit in an office sending emails all day, and never hit the shop floor.
If it is so easy to be an office drone, why werenât you able to get a job like that?
Is it maybe because it involves skills you arenât aware of?
I once worked in an office doing what I described above.
I absolutely hated it stuck in a cubicle, and now work outside with lots of other people grafting, instead of listening to gossiping over the cubicles all day long. Think I lasted 2 months.