The New Workplace - let's face the future!

Out,_Vile_Jelly

PasturesNew wrote: »

It'll all be robots in the future anyway. Unmanned hotels .... smartphone ID/entry, robot room service/cleaning. One fella sitting in the far east being alerted by a computer to movement on 1000 cameras so he can decide if he needs to press a button to call the police to a mugging/burglary.... although the in-house security-bots could apprehend somebody until they're interviewed remotely to discover their purpose and intention.

Robots can no doubt do many things, but you underestimate the dexterity required to make up a hotel bed quickly and thoroughly. It will be a long long time before they are cheaper than immigrant cleaners.

Some jobs die out, but others are being created. Did "marketing" exist 50 years ago? Nobody has yet successfully explained what marketing is or why the world needs it.

michaels

PasturesNew wrote: »

It'll all be robots in the future anyway. Unmanned hotels .... smartphone ID/entry, robot room service/cleaning. One fella sitting in the far east being alerted by a computer to movement on 1000 cameras so he can decide if he needs to press a button to call the police to a mugging/burglary.... although the in-house security-bots could apprehend somebody until they're interviewed remotely to discover their purpose and intention.

Long before then we will all be lying in tanks of warm water 'jacked-in' to receive whatever sensory experience we desire, won't be much call for hotels.

PasturesNew

Out,_Vile_Jelly wrote: »

Nobody has yet successfully explained what marketing is or why the world needs it.

Marketing is doing something and measuring it, so you can tell how responsive those type of people are to your bullsh*t. You then learn the different types of bullsh*t that appeal to the markets you wish to dominate and hit them with it. You measure what you do and change/improve your bullsh*t until you've sucked in everybody that was in your target market.

Simples.

zagubov

Will there be a bell to sound when the last human jobs become automated and the economy becomes completely uncoupled from society?

chewmylegoff

zagubov wrote: »

Will there be a bell to sound when the last human jobs become automated and the economy becomes completely uncoupled from society?

No, skynet doesn't install bells on its terminators as it doesn't want you to hear them coming.

Loughton_Monkey

You have to pay good money for someone who needs to show innovation, initiative, and entrepreneurial skills. Managing a Premier Inn doesn't really need all that.

Whoever built up the chain probably showed those skills in trumps, because all they need now is a reasonably intelligent person who can take the 'list' and 'tick the boxes' throughout the day.

Strikes me as a sort of 'average wage' type of job, possibly performed by a reasonably intelligent 20-something person. Nothing wrong with that.

buglawton

HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »

Not quite...

The show was misleading as the interviewed junior employee didn't realise what his more senior colleagues earn.

Go to glass ceiling or any of the similar sites and you can check Whitbread salaries...

As I understand it from a quick google a very junior Premier Inn shift manager will earn around 18-20K. They then also have a hotel operations manager in each site on around 30K. For every 3-5 Premier Inns there is a cluster GM earning circa 50K to 60K. And then Regional Ops managers on a fair bit more.

A Costa assistant manager will earn circa 18K, a store manager circa 28K, area managers around 40K, etc.

Did you go on to hear the bit where the reporter visited Whitbread's HQ to find the entire corporation being seeming run by a handful of people? Yes the higher echelons earn more but there are hardly any of them!

buglawton

zagubov wrote: »

Will there be a bell to sound when the last human jobs become automated and the economy becomes completely uncoupled from society?

Been following C4's Humans?
I think they got it wrong though: It won't be robots being as clever as humans, it'll be jobs being redesigned using IT, so that humans only need to have the IQ of a robot.

buglawton

michaels wrote: »

Long before then we will all be lying in tanks of warm water 'jacked-in' to receive whatever sensory experience we desire, won't be much call for hotels.

Since the invention of central heating and Sky TV, we are nearly there already.

buglawton

PasturesNew wrote: »

It'll all be robots in the future anyway. Unmanned hotels .... smartphone ID/entry, robot room service/cleaning. One fella sitting in the far east being alerted by a computer to movement on 1000 cameras so he can decide if he needs to press a button to call the police to a mugging/burglary.... although the in-house security-bots could apprehend somebody until they're interviewed remotely to discover their purpose and intention.

Got it in one, see my post #19 as an answer to this too!