{"id":21872,"date":"2016-10-06T17:23:24","date_gmt":"2016-10-06T11:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/officechai.com\/?p=21872"},"modified":"2016-10-06T23:18:23","modified_gmt":"2016-10-06T17:48:23","slug":"electronic-receptionist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/officechai.com\/news\/electronic-receptionist\/","title":{"rendered":"This American Startup Has A Receptionist Who Sits In India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">If Americans were worried that Indians are taking away their jobs, this news isn&#8217;t going to help one bit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">An American startup has hired a receptionist who sits in India and greets visitors as they enter its office. The man is essentially a mobile robot, who communicates with visitors through a digital screen. There&#8217;s a webcam attached to his device through which he can see what&#8217;s going on &#8211; in turn, visitors at the office can hear him speak through a microphone.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I&#39;m visiting an office in Silicon Valley where the receptionist is a mobile robot. The guy behind it is in New Delhi. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Uoj9RjiNu3\">pic.twitter.com\/Uoj9RjiNu3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Brad Loncar (@bradloncar) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bradloncar\/status\/783800997789388800?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 5, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">According to Brad Loncar, a US-based private investor, the man sits in New Delhi and conducts operations for this startup at its front desk.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">It&#8217;s an idea that&#8217;ll make you do a double-take, but it could work. If you can outsource tech jobs, and call center jobs, why should a receptionist be any different? All a receptionist really does is look at visitors (this is done via a webcam), access records (this man in Delhi can easily have access to the software that a receptionist in California would have), and possibly grant access to the building (this can too be done electronically).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">And all this at a fraction of the salary that a receptionist would demand in California.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">No wonder Donald Trump is concerned about immigration &#8211; this is clearly a threat to low-skilled American workers, who will increasingly see their livelihoods \u00a0outsourced away.\u00a0But like this receptionist shows, you don&#8217;t even need to be an immigrant while taking away someone&#8217;s job &#8211; you can do it from many thousand miles away.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If Americans were worried that Indians are taking away their jobs, this news isn&#8217;t going to help one bit. 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