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by Kephael 3077 days ago
Sure you can, just move most of your computing resources to the cloud and let Amazon manage hardware maintenance.
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office workers still have computing devices on their desks, keyboards monitors, mice, printers, label printers, scanners, voip phones, switches, routers, access points, sip callboxes on the doors, projectors, access control systems, etc.

maybe the office will finally go paperless this decade, and a couple of those will go away. they'll just be some new IoT fuckery to contend with.

Let's also not forget that Windows 10 will keep a lot of people employed locally to issue BIOS patches and diagnose BSODs.
An office of freelancers with their own laptops using GMail, deploying an app to GKE, writing Google Docs, etc needs a barista before they need an IT Support person, and Google perfectly well knows this, because this is the world they are striving to create!

Or Azure or AWS I just mention Google stuff because this is their thing