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SaaS seems like a trap.

Step 1) Offer artificially cheap software to replace employees.

Step 2) Attracted by low prices and productivity, employers adopt software.

Step 3) Software works. Employers lay off employees.

Step 4) SaaS vendor needs to make profit, raises prices significantly.

Step 5) Software is no longer cost-effective to employer, but employer doesn't have employees to fall back on.



Talent pool is small and/or hard to access anyway, so even without step 3), as a manager, you always look at ways to do more with less, and SAAS gives you this. It's then a matter of finding the right balance.




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