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What does deskill mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word deskill? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. To redesign (a job) so that less skill is required to carry it out, for example through the introduction of new technology.
  2. To change the role of (workers) so that they are no longer required or able to use the skills that they have acquired.
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I think we've managed to created a visual language to match the music but we've had to deskill ourselves in order to achieve that.
Now the bosses have the audacity to try to deskill the workers at the Central, and to run down factories in the name of modernisation.
Such developments have made it possible to deskill larger and larger numbers of workers.
They analysed the implications of the proposals, explaining that it would be used to reduce teaching staff and deskill education.
Most of the recent investments have been to deskill and automate production and packaging processes to increase per capita productivity.
But the unions say that plans to downgrade the role of conductor to onboard supervisor threatens to deskill jobs and poses a safety risk.

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