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Four compulsive advantages of Industry 4.0

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This may be a US only issue but isn't the below section illegal discrimination against older workers? The sentence about being at an advantage with "pre-trained resources" is also a fairly disgusting view of what are ultimately people imo.

  2. Attract more young blood
  Modern and innovative technology attracts young and new 
  workers as even education focuses on these specific needs 
  of the industry. Businesses are at an advantage when the 
  resources are pre-trained rather than investing time and 
  energy in training the existing resources. Fresh minds 
  also mean fresh ideas. In a business world demanding 
  constant innovation and rapid growth, there couldn’t be a 
  better time for both businesses and youngsters to grow 
  together.

I've seen this viewpoint taken over the entire industry with every company I've worked start to refuse to hire people below senior level and removing any time or money allotted for training or learning. Everyone's expected to come in knowing their tech stack already and if the industry moves you're expected to learn on your own time.

Not only this view of attracting young blood comes as a discrimination in disguise but also rather it has become an industry norm to hire young talent because of the resistance shown by the experienced/senior level in terms of re-skilling and get accommodated to the new technologies. Also, for any business/startup the time taken to ship things to production is a key factor to stay ahead of competition. In this way, businesses naturally opt-out for a skilled worker rather than training a newbie. Though there should be a fair balance between both of them to attain a sustainable growth in the long run.

the resistance shown by the experienced/senior level in terms of re-skilling and get accommodated to the new technologies

When you have been around a while you start to notice that new technologies are mostly just old ideas with worse implementation than the originals. It’s not resisting genuine innovation, just seeing through the bullshit of the latest “framework” or whatever.

This turns out to be a more generalized statement because we can't just limit ourselves to the technological companies but also take into consideration of different industries starting from manufacturing, construction and varied other fields. Though I agree the resistance shown may be sometimes due to worst implementations of new technologies but at most of the cases it is not the same.

Also, agility is another important factor that takes the businesses to different horizons.

Exactly. Just busywork with less documentation and more fragmentation.

It turns out be more redundant work than being a valuable or a smart work.

There are inevitable advantages due to digital transformation and adopting to Industry 4.0. But though at this juncture, Industry 4.0 just happens to be a buzzword in the market where the technology companies project themselves to be front runners in the market without even any proper implementations being carried out effectively.

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