Thread regarding GE Digital layoffs

The future is coming -are new technologies that big a threat to job security?

I had to post this interesting interview with GE Digital Europe’s SVP Deborah Sherry. The topic is more than convenient for this site, giving that it covers the topic of how new technologies and automation impacts the workforce and is it that big a threat to jobs as in the near future as it is thought to be.

It’s not like we don't have to fear already from more traditional reasons for losing our jobs like cost-cutting, mergers, and buyouts, relocations, or just lousy management. Hopefully, in the long run, the new technologies will modify the workforce market rather than decrease the demand for workers (as it is usually the case when something new and revolutionary is invented), but in a meantime, there is no question that it’s going to cost a lot of people their jobs.

Here’s the link to the interview:

https://internetofbusiness.com/deborah-sherry-ge-digital-automation-workforce/

by Anonymous
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The problem isn't that automation is displacing workers, it's that the efficiency gains / profits from that displacement go to the a--holes at the top and not to society as a whole.

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Post ID: @4tcu+Vudqvq6

You can longer do the same job for your entire life. Technology and its applications change every few years and one needs to be on top of things--if not you are just a dead weight. Moreover -- any tasks that dont require any brains would be automated -- my suggestion is get off your phone, ditch the touchscreen and make an effort to read a couple of hours every week.

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Sorry to disappoint you, the article is dated October 2, 2018

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Post ID: @2emp+Vudqvq6

Must be old. Deborah Sherry was fired a while ago. Or at least I hope she was fired. When I was in meeting with her, I couldn’t prevent myself from thinking I was watching a The Simpson episode where Homer was managing the nuclear plant.

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Post ID: @1ryw+Vudqvq6

Rember the predictions about prefix "$280 BN business. Turned over 4BN.

by Anonymous
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Post ID: @xii+Vudqvq6

A lot of the automation/robots narrative is a smokescreen for laying off older and more expensive workers.

GE is not coming up with new products to grow its revenue, so it needs to cut its costs to stay in the green.

I'm not sure why you'd trust anything from any GED exec, even if they are in Europe and somewhat divorced from the situation in the US. They got where they are for a reason.

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