The Blog of Harald

“Job Cuts More Than Double in October”:http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=&e=5&u=/ap/20031104/ap_on_bi_ge/job_cuts_1

bq. Job cuts announced by U.S. companies more than doubled in October from the previous month, providing more evidence that the nation’s economy is in a period of jobless expansion

(via “Halley’s Comment”:http://halleyscomment.blogspot.com/archives/2003_11_02_halleyscomment_archive.html#106798164757107862 again).

And today “How to Save the World”:http://blogs.salon.com/0002007/2003/11/04.html#a504 brings us:

bq. What is left of the large corporation though? A small management team and an army of lawyers who contract all of the risky functions of the company to outside organizations. Assets that are all intellectual — patents, trademarks, contracts, etc. Essentially no front-line employees, no liabilities, and no risks. And no direct contact with those pesky customers.

bq. In a world of ends, where the network is everything and all the knowledge resides in the network at these ends, there is no longer any need for a middle-man, especially one as costly as the executive in today’s large corporation.

This is starting to sound eerily like the cyberpunk novels I was reading a decade ago…