{"id":1117,"date":"2014-08-20T10:08:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-20T10:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/projects\/horsesforsources\/digital-cruelty_07314\/"},"modified":"2014-08-20T10:08:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-20T10:08:00","slug":"digital-cruelty_07314","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.horsesforsources.com\/digital-cruelty_07314\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to the age of Digital cruelty, where two-thirds of operational jobs are under threat"},"content":{"rendered":"
Has anyone noticed a much harsher mentality towards “labor” these days?<\/strong> \u00a0I can recall presenting at an HR Outsourcing conference in 2004 where there was a large gathering of anti-globalization protestors outside the hotel bearing placards and shouting obscenities are us through the window.<\/p>\n
“Outsourcing” was a truly dirty<\/em> word, and shame on any callous corporate executives for instigating the use of low cost foreign labor to substitute their own. Even poor old Mitt Romney was associated with evil “outsourcing” practices during his corporate days at Bain Capital, which hurt his (unsuccessful) attempt to become elected US president.<\/p>\n
But all of a sudden, noone really seems to care about protecting jobs<\/em> anymore – if people are just performing “transactional” tasks, for chrissakes automate<\/em> them quickly, or buy a SaaS platform to get rid of the unnecessary waste. Where are the demonstrators outside of SAP headquarters in Waldorf, or Oracle HQ in Redwood Shores as these firms desperately try to convince the world they are cloudifying their products so their clients can start to do away with some of those unnecessary jobs on-premise software provides<\/a>.<\/p>\n