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Few companies that installed computers to reduce the employment of clerks have realized their expectations... They now need more, and more expensive clerks even though they call them 'operators' or 'programmers.'
Few companies that installed computers to reduce the employment of clerks have realized their expectations... They now need more, and more expensive clerks even though they call them 'operators' or 'programmers.'
Approximate author period: c. 1957 AD · modern
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- Peter Drucker
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- Approximate author period: c. 1957 AD · modern
Approximate author-period evidence for Peter Drucker: life dates 1909 to 2005. Wikidata Q84238, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q84238 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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