Originally Posted by Rochard

Here we go. "All of our jobs are going to be replaced".

They said this all through the 1990s. "Computers are coming and we don't need office workers". The one that stuck out the most was accountants. "Who will need accountants when we have spreadsheets". Well, who is going to use those spreadsheets?

In the end we did see some force reduction in some fields. Some companies were able to do more with less. But at the same time... they had hire more people... One office I worked at had an IT department and a Networking department. At the same time, new companies were started - computer stores, computer classes, programmers, software designers....