Community Chat

[jeannie1]

Is qvc ending its 24 hour programming, I sure hate to see that happen and n the other hand it will save me .one i won't watch the same programming during the night

[Alexa6352]

HSN has been doing that for a long time..So what does that mean? To me it means that some Hosts will be let go?.... Who knows?

[millieshops]

@Alexa6352I would think hosts, programmers, stylists, stagers, camera people, custodial staff, and who knows what else.  The more shoppers head to the Internet, the more pressured the non-Internet focused retailers are to save dollars. 

Personnel is one area we see pretty much all trying to cut.  Even Amazon which is making $$$ hand over fist has plans to delete human workers in their warehouses as much as possible.  They're still growing so I'm not sure how that gets accomplished.

[SeaMaiden]

It saves money.  That is the bottom line. 

[iwrite]

@millieshops 

i have read a few article about the robots that amazon is testing/using now to replace humans. i also know that ups and fedex have some box looking machines on wheels, that deliver packages. the video that i saw didn't show the machine going up people's front steps, so i don't know how that is going to work.

this is the goal of most companies . . . to do more with less people.

i remember my first programming job out of tech school, way back when,  was developing software to replace those medical claims forms that doctors had to fill out and then have data entry people key them in. at the time, i didn't realize that the software that the team i was part of would be eliminating over 5,000 jobs at that one company. even though i was in my early 20's, i  suspected something was going on because all of the programmers were in a different building with major security then the rest of the company and we weren't allowed to go to any of the other buildings.

what i have learned over the years, is that whatever industry is hot at the moment, will eventually run it's course and slow down at some point.

now hospitals are using technology to contact doctors wherever they are and the doctors are video conferenced in to patients bedsides, the er and people at home. same thing for people that are able to have a dialysis machine in their house. all of the weekly nursing visits to them are going bye-bye. now, some of those visiting nurses work from home and skype in or whatever software they are using to contact patients. actually, i like that because nurses have been attacked in patients homes.

i honestly thought by now, that there would be millions and millions of people in this country that were working from home.