A totally new area of opportunity is evolving around internet business but does it give additional jobs or replace others in a more traditional setting? Reports continue to circulate about the development 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 face of it this would seem to be right.

Organisations are appearing at a great rate taking advantage of the big demand in online shopping from individual items for personal use such as presents, household equipment, clothing and books to the business to business type trade where larger scale trading occurs. We can also see the growth of existing organizations who have realised the online opportunities and have increased their offering, moving into online sales and therefore widening their audience enormously. Both of these situations will mean an swell 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 continue and people are recruited into the new positions created and developed by the firm from this exciting new source. On top of the sales processing or customer service jobs there will also be increases in support roles such as human resources, finance departments and of course in manufacturing areas. As demand on each particular business increases due to their successful internet promotion 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 business.

However at some point, presumably after the exhilaration brought on by the remarkable increase in sales has settled, the business will need to reevaluate all of it’s sectors. It may be that this takes a while to occur, however in the most astute companies they may already be expecting falls in other sales areas. The firm may at that point see that areas such as high street sales have been negatively affected by the move towards internet sales and it may be decided that it is no longer worth operating in those areas.

So sooner or later we could see simply a shift in the sales arena, from the more conservative types 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 drop off 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 statistic that is larger than the current one.

Of course, it’s by no means sure that there will be an increase in job seekers as a result of these trends. History from the start of the industrial revolution teaches us that these types of developments make society as a whole richer over time. A percentage of the workers losing their jobs will set up new micro businesses, and taking advantage of the trends which caused their owners to lose their jobs in the first place, enough of these companies will expand into important employers in their own right. Thereby offrering work to those whose jobs were lost at the beginning of the trend.

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