Restaurants are starting to hire robots instead of people who are demanding higher pay Ben Winck and Nick Lichtenberg Jul 6, 2021, 10:20 AM A menu is displayed at eatsa, a fully automated fast food restaurant on August 31, 2015 in San Francisco, California. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Businesses are tired of waiting for workers and are increasingly turning to automation instead. The trend has swept through the restaurant industry as the labor shortage is hurting hiring. People have long feared automation destroying jobs, but it could also kick off a "virtuous circle" that helps the economy. NEWSLETTER Sign up for 10 Things in Politics newsletter for the biggest stories in politics & the economy. Email address By clicking ‘Sign up’, you agree to receive marketing emails from Insider as well as other partner offers and accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. SPONSORED BY BANK OF AMERICA PRIVATE BANKTalking about Money with Family
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After months of waiting for workers to rejoin the labor force, some businesses have had it.
Just 10% of job seekers are urgently looking for openings, according to a recent survey conducted by hiring giant Indeed. Whether it's because of virus fears, childcare costs, financial cushions, or enhanced unemployment benefits, the jobless aren't clamoring for many of the jobs on offer, which are largely in the hard-hit restaurant and hospitality space.
Enter the QR-code. This technology, which allows a short-staffed restaurant to save on having a person physically bringing a menu to a diner's table, is the canary in the coal mine of automation. Other signs of an automation revolution are cropping up.
Hiring issues have been widespread in the restaurant industry for several months, as Insider reported, with major firms like McDonald's struggling to contend with the national labor shortage. Many of them have begun turning to technology as a replacement to low-wage workers. For instance, Cracker Barrel rolled out a mobile app that lets customers pay for meals; McDonald's started testing automated drive-thru ordering at 10 Chicago locations; and Dave & Buster's plans to expand its contactless ordering.
The benefits are obvious. Automated solutions are often one-time investments, boost productivity, and don't require expensive solutions to fixing a staffing crisis like the signing bonuses also growing in popularity.
Economic data suggests that the shift to automation has been underway for months now. Productivity surged 5.4% in the first three months of 2021, its fastest rate of improvement in more than 20 years. This jump came as businesses had just started rehiring, suggesting the increase had more to do with the continued use of pandemic-era tech.
Businesses adopting new tech, largely in restaurants so far, haven't shied away from admitting that yes, automation will replace workers. Dave & Buster's locations using contactless ordering "have been able to expand the size of server sections and reduce staffing levels to be more efficient," Margo Manning, the company's chief operating officer, said in a June earnings call.
People have long feared that adoption of new technology will spark a vicious cycle of job destruction and stagnant pay as robots take over the workforce. This type of thinking is often called Luddite, after a group of UK workers who destroyed the machinery that had taken their jobs during the early years of the Industrial Revolution in the early 1800s. But automation can feed a virtuous cycle instead of a Luddite-like vicious one.
The utilization of technological innovations has tended to boost productivity for the last several hundred years of economic history. That gives workers a stronger case for higher wages. More pay leads to increased economic activity, which increases labor demand elsewhere in the economy.
Accepting automation can also optimize job growth, economics writer Noah Smith wrote in a June 13 blog post. Americans who would've been taking orders and busing tables could develop new, more valuable skills as low-wage jobs are taken over by tech. Past periods of massive innovation — from the industrial revolution to the dot-com boom — didn't eliminate jobs, but shifted them elsewhere.
A push for automation "is about believing in the potential of humankind," he said.
New technology is invented by humans, after all, and it could be put to use making people's jobs better instead of worse. This could be the start of that movement. Then again, it might not.
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VISIT SITEAfter months of waiting for workers to rejoin the labor force, some businesses have had it.
Just 10% of job seekers are urgently looking for openings, according to a recent survey conducted by hiring giant Indeed. Whether it's because of virus fears, childcare costs, financial cushions, or enhanced unemployment benefits, the jobless aren't clamoring for many of the jobs on offer, which are largely in the hard-hit restaurant and hospitality space.
Enter the QR-code. This technology, which allows a short-staffed restaurant to save on having a person physically bringing a menu to a diner's table, is the canary in the coal mine of automation. Other signs of an automation revolution are cropping up.
Hiring issues have been widespread in the restaurant industry for several months, as Insider reported, with major firms like McDonald's struggling to contend with the national labor shortage. Many of them have begun turning to technology as a replacement to low-wage workers. For instance, Cracker Barrel rolled out a mobile app that lets customers pay for meals; McDonald's started testing automated drive-thru ordering at 10 Chicago locations; and Dave & Buster's plans to expand its contactless ordering.
The benefits are obvious. Automated solutions are often one-time investments, boost productivity, and don't require expensive solutions to fixing a staffing crisis like the signing bonuses also growing in popularity.
Economic data suggests that the shift to automation has been underway for months now. Productivity surged 5.4% in the first three months of 2021, its fastest rate of improvement in more than 20 years. This jump came as businesses had just started rehiring, suggesting the increase had more to do with the continued use of pandemic-era tech.
Businesses adopting new tech, largely in restaurants so far, haven't shied away from admitting that yes, automation will replace workers. Dave & Buster's locations using contactless ordering "have been able to expand the size of server sections and reduce staffing levels to be more efficient," Margo Manning, the company's chief operating officer, said in a June earnings call.
People have long feared that adoption of new technology will spark a vicious cycle of job destruction and stagnant pay as robots take over the workforce. This type of thinking is often called Luddite, after a group of UK workers who destroyed the machinery that had taken their jobs during the early years of the Industrial Revolution in the early 1800s. But automation can feed a virtuous cycle instead of a Luddite-like vicious one.
The utilization of technological innovations has tended to boost productivity for the last several hundred years of economic history. That gives workers a stronger case for higher wages. More pay leads to increased economic activity, which increases labor demand elsewhere in the economy.
Accepting automation can also optimize job growth, economics writer Noah Smith wrote in a June 13 blog post. Americans who would've been taking orders and busing tables could develop new, more valuable skills as low-wage jobs are taken over by tech. Past periods of massive innovation — from the industrial revolution to the dot-com boom — didn't eliminate jobs, but shifted them elsewhere.
A push for automation "is about believing in the potential of humankind," he said.
New technology is invented by humans, after all, and it could be put to use making people's jobs better instead of worse. This could be the start of that movement. Then again, it might not.
超市里的自助收银台也是越来越多，问题是我用过的几次总出问题，老是按钮叫人来，所以这个我不爱用。
当然只是普通餐馆不是高档的。
现在本来就存在AI代替人工的问题，政府还一门心思推高salary，最后是干脆大家都没工作直接拿一千刀回家躺平了。
银行业最近招了很多junior analyst， junior banker 等职位。
销售
维护社会稳定也是一大难题
就是帮人开账户一类工作。其实也可以自动化
已经减少了太多TELLER的岗位了，银行的各种手机APPS更进了一步。
没办法，必须要培养人类从小学习复杂技术的基础素质。
等替补库来 ：）
码货员用robot 就可以了
passive income 进账，那就躺平好了 ：）
取代。
分析员？有的投行/银行要求回公司上班，但有些投行/银行却同意在家工作以吸引人才不跳槽？展展最近花街新动向？ ：）
我有次看新闻，就是省长现场办公，有点TOWN HALL的那意思。
一个中年妇女就提问，说她找不到工作。她做能找的工作就是餐馆工，但是餐馆工是跟着客流走的，在客流大的时候那个工作强度她的身体坚持不下来。她说工厂的工作量比较平稳，她没问题，但是她就是找不到。
省长哼哼嗤嗤也说不出来个啥。
仓库有点事，请仓库的员工帮我打开样品，检测后再包装起来，几个人帮我，其中一个人自己就能把上百磅的物品扛着装配起来，旁边人跟我开玩笑说LD 都是坐办公室在电脑前的，今天居然打包起来 ：）
https://www.greenworkstools.com/optimow-50h-robotic-lawn-mower-2530002?ff=7&fp=970&utm_campaign=GoogleShopping&utm_medium=cpc&utm_source=google
需要这些新毕业的大学生做这些职位，而且还大量简化了招聘步骤。你建议新大学毕业生还去花街吗？
你们小小年纪各个都能享受手机电脑平板和INTERNET的很多FUN，十几岁就能拥有自己的车，凭啥啊？
科技社会享受了这些也得要付出，那就是十几年甚至二三十年如一日的学习读书，才能在科技社会自立找到自己合适的位置。得到和付出都是对等的。
觉得政府工作人员没啥能力的太多了 ：）
凭啥啊？
周一刚上任。
AMAZON BASIC的来卖，当然自家东西永远是搜索首位，卖同类东西的小商家就玩完了。