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Agreed, mostly.

I think you're saying that companies will pick the software that works best for them. They should. If "works best" implies having fewer people on staff, that's a normal part of business. (I think replacement of paid by volunteer labor is wrong, but that's not the issue here.)

A caveat, though. You wrote:
If you are running a business, you are not doing it for the sake of hiring people; you are doing it to fill a need.

Well, you're doing it to make money. The reason people and businesses pay money to you is because you're filling a need. Didn't want to leave out that step in the logic.


And an observation. You wrote:
If you have a specific staffing need, you fill that need. If you can automate much of it, thus reducing potential human errors, you will probably go this route and go after the profits through increased efficiency.

A wisespread problem is that companies will expect to use automation even if a person is less expensive.

More egregiously, a company will go from a working system in place to a new software package because they expect fewer, less expensive (read: younger) people will be required for maintenance.

Such changes are applauded initially, and for some reason the failure of many such projects (which has to be resolved by expensive consultants) does not dim the prospects of the executive who recommended the fiasco to begin with.

In short, for many companies personnel costs are qualitatively worse than other costs.

Posted by: Anton Philidor   Posted on: 04/01/05 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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