Brad Smith CEO at Intuit says his 50m users can do a better job at some jobs than Intuit. Let's see what salaries we are paying that can be voluntarily done by users for free. Is this User generated unemployment? Are these the business rewards from social media? This is from Fortune's Brainstorm conference.
Hmm, all of the cuts in employment came from US based support. None of the overseas support was cut and as a matter of fact a new call center was assigned Intuit calls to the Philippines. Some one has been drinking the special Kool-aid again.
TheCanuckhead2000 2 years ago
Excellent talk by Brad Smith. I'm very impressed.
joecool79 3 years ago
It is sad that good support people were hurt by User Generated Unemployment at Intuit. It also was sad when small-scale farmers were hurt, but users may soon improve support at many companies. Intuit uses many in-program, in-context, links, to related Wiki-enabled user-to-user forums. Some of the 7 million TurboTax users answered 40% of questions faster than support personnel, while tending to give better answers. That let Intuit cut 7%of employees, while improving support, at almost no cost.
BlockTaxQuickBooks 3 years ago