1338: Retail labor under digitalization / Janina Hirth + Markus Rhein
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This Is Hell!
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🗓️ 18 May 2021
⏱️ 67 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | It's a call on a part, it's a tall or love is a |
| 0:05.0 | a blithely. |
| 0:07.0 | What's going to be a soul? |
| 0:10.0 | What's going to go. This is hell. |
| 0:27.0 | live from the United States where capitalism is the virus. This is hell. |
| 0:40.0 | Germany's retail sector, especially within the fast fashion industry, is experiencing |
| 0:46.3 | digitalization and they never saw it coming. |
| 0:49.5 | And likely workers around the world, they won't either when digitalization comes to them and it will if it has not already. |
| 0:56.4 | First there were the RIFD tags that made sense after all. It was a great way to stop shoplifting but then those |
| 1:05.2 | tags became something else something more they were no longer only trying to |
| 1:11.0 | stop customers from walking off with merchandise. |
| 1:14.0 | They are now being used so management from afar could more fully understand inventory, |
| 1:19.5 | what was hot and what was not, and where it was hot and where it was not. Suddenly they could send product to where it was wanted as |
| 1:26.9 | quickly as it was ordered. All they had to do was arm all their employees with |
| 1:31.2 | electronic devices that have them constantly on the move for the new |
| 1:34.8 | more grueling retail work where instead of you building relationships with customers and fellow |
| 1:39.9 | workers the few interactions you actually have with the public are negative while you and your |
| 1:44.0 | coworkers are at each other's throats. Remember how we are all afraid of losing our jobs to |
| 1:51.3 | automation? The new fear is losing our minds and lives, |
| 1:55.0 | our actual physical health to digitalization, |
| 1:58.0 | which is an actual threat to your life. |
| 2:01.0 | So, who would allow themselves to participate in this new world of worker |
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