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As I said earlier, the telephone did the same thing yet we are still here, still see our friends and still have to meet eye-to-eye with our prospective employer...
I don't know of anyone who hires people over the Internet except maybe the Mexican drug cartel and politicians who need people to hand out flyers...
I agree, but getting to the interview stage (where you can have a quality personal exchange) is MUCH harder these days.
Here's some more food for thought. If the internet went away, that 20% of the workday (I made that figure up out of thin air, before anyone yells at me) that the average person wastes on it (either on a desktop in an office or on a netbook/tablet/smartphone) might be productive time instead, leading to a drop in necessary HC (headcount) / FTE (full-time equivalent).
So we'd increase our productivity, being able to do the same with fewer people, leading to higher unemployment.
I've had an observation about modern day unemployment.
How much higher would unemployment be today, if we did not have the modern era communication resources at our finger tips. How much more diminished would our ability to search for a job be, if we had to rely solely on word of mouth, or local newspapers and the monthly trade magazines?
Rapid communication has always been a productivity booster.
There is no doubt that putting more people in touch with more businesses benefits both.
There is no down side to improving communications.
Here's some more food for thought. If the internet went away, that 20% of the workday (I made that figure up out of thin air, before anyone yells at me) that the average person wastes on it (either on a desktop in an office or on a netbook/tablet/smartphone) might be productive time instead, leading to a drop in necessary HC (headcount) / FTE (full-time equivalent).
So we'd increase our productivity, being able to do the same with fewer people, leading to higher unemployment.
Maybe you weren't working a few decades ago when we had no office tools.... productivity today is light years ahead of then.... even with the wasted net surfing time.
Maybe you weren't working a few decades ago when we had no office tools.... productivity today is light years ahead of then.... even with the wasted net surfing time.
That's true, I got my first actual office job in 2004 at age 29.
Then again, did you receive 160 emails and hundreds of business IMs per day back then?
Years ago truckers would run from coast at coast and have a hard time finding the loads to back haul. They would come home empty - just burning up fuel and suffering from any maintenance cost. The internet came along and everything was great (at first) - they went out to the opposite coast and found loads to pull home. That was in the beginning. However; eventually the competition drove the rates so low that it was better to come home empty than bring the freight 3000 miles. I think that it has stabilized somewhat today?
It is one thing to compete with just one or two other truckers for loads. It is another thing to compete with all of your competition at the same time. You have to have a very sharp pencil and know your equipment to make any money.
The same could probably be said for any business that the internet touches.
Something as powerful a tool as the internet is, would not go unused by an industry as fluid as the trucking industry.
I've had an observation about modern day unemployment.
Back during the Great Depression, and even during the late '70s and early '80' unemployment figures were a bit higher, in some areas, then today. The difference is that today we have the internet. We have chat rooms, community sites, Monster.com, and even instant video conferencing. The tools we have today were not even imagined decades ago. Do we take them for granted now?
Just think of how much easier it is today, to find a job, then it was twenty of 80 years ago. We can join dozens of job employment web sites, and instantly find employers who are looking for people from all across the US, and overseas. Today, we can create truly professional looking resumes from our home computer and email them all across the world.
How much higher would unemployment be today, if we did not have the modern era communication resources at our finger tips. How much more diminished would our ability to search for a job be, if we had to rely solely on word of mouth, or local newspapers and the monthly trade magazines?
Not much higher. People who have been out of work for a while and looking for work generally cannot afford to move, and that's even more likely if they're tied to house.
And we did have "chat rooms" and Monster.com. It was called the unemployment office and you could go there even in the 1981 and look for jobs on their computer and through job listings posted on the walls and in giant books that had page after page of job listings updated weekly from all around the State and the country.
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