A Whole New Sector Of Opportunity Is Developing Around Internet Business But Does It Offer Additional Jobs Or Replace Others Currently In A More Traditional Setting
A entire new area of opportunity is evolving around internet business but does it offer additional jobs or replace others in a more customary setting? Reports continue to circulate about the growth in the Online Jobs market and how it will have a positive impact on the number of people without a job in the UK over the next couple of years. On the surface of it this would seem to be correct.
Businesses are popping up at a great rate taking advantage of the big demand in online shopping from individual things for personal use such as presents, household equipment, clothing and books to the business to business type trade where larger scale trading takes place. We can also see the development of existing businesses who have realised the online opportunities and have increased their offering, moving into online sales and therefore widening their audience massively. Both of these circumstances will mean an rise in employee numbers whether they Work From Home or in the office or factory.
Certainly in the short term this will reduce the jobless figures as existing roles are maintained and people are recruited into the new situations created and developed by the business from this thrilling new source. On top of the sales processing or customer service positions there will also be increases in back room roles such as HR, finance departments and of course in production areas. As demand on each particular organisation increases due to their successful internet advertising virtually all areas of the company will need to expand. The company will also need to handle larger distribution, banking and accountancy requirements meaning that there will be increased demand on peripheral organizations servicing the growing organisation.
However at some point, presumably after the excitement brought on by the striking increase in sales has calmed, the business will need to reevaluate all of it’s areas. It may be that this takes a while to occur, however in the most wise companies they may already be anticipating drops in other sales areas. The business may at that point see that areas such as high street sales have been negatively affected by the move towards internet marketing and it may be decided that it is no longer worth being active in those areas.
So ultimately we could see simply a shift in the sales arena, from the more traditional sorts such as high street shops and catalogue chains to the newer and more successful Internet Business. Jobs will be lost in the old sectors as high street shop profits plumet and organizations see a much better return on investment from their e-commerce activities. The workforce in these shrinking markets will reduce and we could end up with a jobless figure that is larger than the current one.
Of course, it’s by no means certain that there will be a rise in joblessness as a result of these trends. History from the beginning of the industrial revolution teaches us that these kinds of efficiencies make society as a whole richer over time. A percentage of the employees losing their jobs will set up new micro businesses, and taking advantage of the changes which caused their owners to lose their jobs in the first place, enough of these firms will develop into important employers in their own right. Thereby employing those whose jobs disappeared at the beginning of the trend.
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