The 4 ways to die by being eliminated from the workplace, the iron rice bowl is no longer reliable! 4. 99% of people lose their jobs
A few days ago, I was chatting with my colleagues in the company. The author raised a question, "If the company goes out of business now, and now we re-enter the society, what can we do". In fact, my colleagues have discussed a lot. It is true that if you are unemployed and then choose a career, you can find many other things to do. It is certain that you will not starve to death, but this is definitely not the life we want.
Modern society is changing rapidly. According to statistics, the time for society to undergo changes has changed from unprecedented changes in the previous millennium to only ten years or even a few years before a major change occurs. So what these changes will develop into in the future, no one knows, but the only certainty is that during the time of change, many industries and companies will die, and a large number of people will be unemployed.
So in the future, what challenges will we face in the workplace? In what form will it be eliminated from the workplace? Below, the author will share with you 4 forms of being eliminated from the workplace.
- Eliminated by the company ============================
Whether poor or rich, or leaders or employees in the workplace, there is no way to avoid ageing. Facing the growth of age, the energy is not as good as before, but it is better than the experience. However, the growth of capacity is also gradually reduced. As more and more young people enter the workplace, they are low-cost, young, malleable, and easy to fool. Therefore, when many companies encounter a crisis, they often lay off some old employees and recruit some young people with lower wages, which reduces costs and improves organizational efficiency.
This is the most terrifying thing in the workplace. The meaning of my existence in the workplace is gradually replaced by other young newcomers, and my growth cannot keep up with the company's pace. For the company, he is just an old employee with long working years, and others have fallen behind. The fate waiting at this time is layoffs. Don't you see that many companies now, except for senior executives, basically limit their recruitment age to below 35 years old.
Therefore, being eliminated by the company in the workplace is relatively light, and the reason is very simple.
- Eliminated by the industry =============================
Science and technology are developing rapidly. From the reform and opening up to the present, the society has changed too much. For example, in Wang Xiaobo's novel "The Stubborn Master", the position of the sales team leader of a daily necessities handkerchief in a department store may have been very popular in the 1980s and 1990s, but it is no longer there. Another example is the salesman who used to walk in the streets, because of the rise of e-commerce and the popularity of the retail industry has long disappeared.
Many companies that looked good before and even now, because of the development of technology, make all aspects of the business incapable of meeting new conditions. The most notable is the country's recent elimination of outdated production capacity in the steel industry. Although steel is the basis of the country's industry, the company where employees work has been eliminated due to backward technology, and employees have also entered a state of unemployment.
In the workplace, this situation is most lamentable. It's not that I don't work hard and seriously in the workplace, but that the company is not good enough and is eliminated by the industry. Just as people are eliminated, so is the competition between enterprises. The employees in the enterprise are just pond fish who are affected. No wonder the old man said that men are afraid of entering the wrong profession. That's fine, just jump ship.
- Eliminated by the market ===========================
The author's grandmother worked in a local match factory in the 1980s. At that time, matches were still a must-have item for people at home. But what about now? The author looked on the Internet and found that almost all match factories in China are facing the dilemma of bankruptcy. There are still many examples of re-entering pen repairers, watch repairers, repairers, etc. Because of changes in the market, people's consumption habits have changed, resulting in some industries that no longer have room to survive and gradually disappear in the long river of history.
Perhaps more than ten years ago, their special abilities could make them flourish in the workplace. But over time, when their specialties are no longer needed, what they know and are good at won't allow them to gain a foothold in the workplace. Even, job-hopping can't solve this problem. Possessing dragon slaying skills but has no dragons to slay.
In the workplace, it is very important to develop personal capabilities. The one trick that was said in the past is no longer applicable in contemporary society. Your skills are very likely to be replaced by others in the future. At that time, you will have no basis to rely on, and everything will have to start all over again. But did you still have so much time and energy at that time?
- Eliminated by intelligent machines =====================================
In the past 10 years, the author has personally experienced the changes brought about by technology in my company. The production capacity has increased by 50%, but the number of personnel has decreased by 20%. Even the author's boss said, "If you are willing to continue investing, you can continue to reduce staff by 50%."
There is a lot of buzz right now that robots will replace humans, and I think it will definitely happen, even in the last 10 years. Of course, the first to replace is some physical, repetitive work. Such as textile mills, manufacturing. The extensive use of intelligent machines has greatly increased the production capacity and advanced level of many industries, but it has left many people unemployed. This is not the failure of the enterprise, nor the decline of the industry, nor the lack of efforts of the employees, but the inevitable choice of the enterprise's development at this time.
At this time, you may be able to reuse your expertise and personal skills in the workplace, but once intelligent machines are popularized, machines can do better and faster than you. At this time, even if I change jobs and study again, I am afraid that I will not be able to enter the workplace again. Just like the popularity of driverless cars, drivers will be eliminated. With the popularization of big data, doctors and bank tellers will be eliminated.