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Caught On Tape: How The Robots Are Taking Over Amazon
Tuesday, January 3, 2017 16:19
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Over the past few years, as Amazon's distribution network has grown at a near-exponential pace, so has its workforce. As the chart below shows, starting in 2010 and continuing through the third quarter, Amazon has seen a staggering increase in its mostly part-time employment: from 28,300 to over 306,000.
However, always seeking ways to cut a few basis points from its razor thin retail margins, Jeff Bezos has discovered that many, if not all, of these part-time laborers, minimum wage as they may be, are expendable, and the company is actively growing its robotic “workforce” in preparation for the moment when most of those 300,000+ workers become fully redundant …. http://www.zerohedge.com
Source: http://luismmx.blogspot.com/2017/01/caught-on-tape-how-robots-are-taking.html
