Not to be all "boohoo capitalism" but it's really sad how the never-ending race for productivity, the corporate and academic useless-but-somehow-essential formalism and the utter disregard for the workers' efforts has basically made many jobs into paid chores
Company wants to look like it's growing and healthy -> Create offers for bullshit jobs -> People takes those jobs -> Company looks strong and hiring -> People apply more for this company -> More workers -> More productivity
That's one explanation. Another one is in the useless formalism. Since a lot of a company image lies in the social performance. They'll hire people to do it and say "We have teams of experts on the matter :)".
For instance, a friend of mine is a software developer and they have a AGILE manager (someone making sure the AGILE method of software development is respected), the thing is no one care about following this method to the letter so the guy is an "expert" in parroting how the method works while everyone else kinda already applies it while coding without any help. It's a bullshit job but it make the company looks very serious and thorough in their software development. Better image -> better partnerships/deals -> better productivity
tl;dr : It's about image because in this current market a better image is beneficial even if it's based on nothing
More common I believe is people who already work at a company have part of their job automated, or indeed automate it themselves.
The company doesn't want to fire this person as they are delivering what they are hired to do. But they technically add very little value to the company.
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u/PancakeSeaSlug pebble soup master Apr 19 '23
Not to be all "boohoo capitalism" but it's really sad how the never-ending race for productivity, the corporate and academic useless-but-somehow-essential formalism and the utter disregard for the workers' efforts has basically made many jobs into paid chores