El Paso Times

1960: Blind Switchboard Operator Takes Calls For Goodwill

These or similar words are used many times daily by an attractive brown eyed, brown haired young lady named Joan Cox who is a switchboard operator at Goodwill Industries of El Paso. What’s unusual ...
EDN

Virtual operator system could put switchboard operators out of a job

Switchboard operators could be out of a job and their headsets thrown away if an automatic call transferring system from Telephonetics catches on. Its virtual operator answers a call, asks who the ...
Marketplace

AI lessons from the telephone operators of the 1920s

The rise of generative AI — and ChatGPT in particular — has raised a lot of alarm bells in some industries worried that the technology could make many humans’ jobs obsolete. And those concerns are ...
WBUR

At a recent reunion in Maine, former operators recall the pre-smartphone era working telephone switchboards

Before smartphones, most people kept in touch using landline telephones. And before direct dialing was common, some calls were handled by switchboard operators. During the 1950s, more than 220,000 ...
Yahoo

The 10 jobs expected to decline over the next decade

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (NewsNation) — Finding a job as a typist, telemarketer or switchboard operator will be much harder over the next decade, according ...