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The "real" challenge technology presents isn't that it replaces workers, but rather displaces them.
The robots perform tasks that humans previously performed. The fear is that they are replacing human jobs, eliminating work in distribution centers and elsewhere in the economy. It is not hard to imagine that technology might be a major factor causing persistent unemployment today and threatening “more to come.”
Surprisingly, the managers of distribution centers and supply chains see things rather differently: in surveys they report that they can’t hire enough workers, at least not enough workers who have the necessary skills to deal with new technology. “Supply chain” is the term for the systems used to move products from suppliers to customers. Warehouse robots are not the first technology taking over some of the tasks of supply chain workers, nor are they even seen as the most important technology affecting the industry today.
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/04/scarce-skills-not-scarce-jobs/390789/
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Wednesday April 29 2015, @11:04PM
So how long do you have to stay in order to avoid the job hopper label?
Or how about lying about your last salary? if it's less than a year back it ought to possible to do this even better.
(Score: 3, Informative) by TheGratefulNet on Wednesday April 29 2015, @11:48PM
I've been told that 2 yrs is a good staying time (bay area). problem has been (for me) that companies often change -drastically- over 2 yrs and the same group and/or job may not even be there in that time. reorgs, outsourcing, mergers, changes of direction, loss of funding, you name it. in the last 10 yrs, in every case that my job has ended, its been the company that did the ending and not me. I should not at all be called a job hopper, and yet at one of my last interviews (a month ago) I was called exactly that.
"oh, I see that you are a contractor. why are you applying for this f/t job?"
I'm not a contractor. I'm only a contractor because you (bleeping) companies all are afraid to hire an over-50 engineer and offer him f/t benefits. this has been going on since I was 40, its showing no signs of changing and if I want the job, I have to accept the contract style work and supply any/all benes myself.
guys: take my advice. by the time you hit 35 or 40, try to have an alternate plan since the software world will not want you, in a Very Short Time - shorter than you realize. I've trained and worked in the sw field all my life, but I'm concluding that the field just wants young impressionable and cheap employees and is not willing to pay for experience. as you get experience, you become less desirable.
believe me or not; this is happening to all off us. and the companies simply DONT CARE. they just don't care. they fully know they are destroying the middle class but they are fiddling while rome burns.
"It is now safe to switch off your computer."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 30 2015, @07:34PM
I got myself an MBA after a decade in software development. I could sense bad things coming. I was working 11-14 hours a day, 7 days a week (no kidding), and was treated like dirt. Now I do contract work and make about as much, while doing much less work. I now actually have time to study business, watch movies, read books, etc.
And I agree: After 35 or 40, you are finished as a software developer.
For the first 5 years it was great. Now I wish I hadn't gone into professional software development. Lots of experience, and nobody wants to pay for that experience. Take my advice: Learn business. Learn to piss on people and be able to sleep. Don't pity anyone. Use them and take more than they can possibly give. Remind them you're at war with the competitors, and they need to do more. Never say "you've done enough work, go take some rest"; if somebody wants to work, let them kill themselves for you. Never say thank you. If someone drops behind, grill them; make an example for others. Remind them regularly "the economy is bad".
Start your own company, then:
10: Hire young meat
20: Burn them out
30: GOTO 10
Sorry, but this is what I have seen.