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Originally Posted by Chrysalis
Its more replacing manual workers with skilled workers to operate the machines and to design/build them. So the bottom end of the workforce is affected.
When I started at walkers crisps in the late 1990s each machine on my production line was manned by 5-9 manual workers about 40-60 per shift usually.
By the time I left about 5 years later the average per machine was down to 3 and about 15 per production line per shift. As there was 4 shifts thats a loss of 180 workers for one production line. the last year of my time there, they were well on the way to automating another production line as well which would have had a higher % drop.
However during this same time period they increased employment of machine technicians. Although it was more like an extra 5 techs for about 40 workers lost. Not 1 for 1.
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Its so sad why its happened you shown what happened you now take that add 1,000's factories. People wonder why there no work out there why we got massive unemployment. Yet who the government cracking whips at they pathetic rubbish polititians who scared to tackle real issue.
WHEN this starts to happen in white collar workforce as the MIT suggests we head into BIG BIG ISSUE if we not already there. Maybe MAYBE when this starts GOVERNMENT WILL DO something.
Pace has to be slowed for companies throwing workers out not because work or products would be cheeper ITS maximise profits capitalist greed.
They will use excuses to justify some of the changes.
Damien it can be slowed it will be as they cant continue to carry on this way else we have to change ACCEPT people will have lifetime no jobs.