Wow, Catholic.org.. .didn't see that coming. And I'm not sure if you read the article but it said "Seasonal" workers, not full time gainfully employed people. We hire seasonal workers too at our warehouse in Ohio...and they aren't gainfully employed. But I bet you knew what that was.
But Amazon boss Jeff Bezos' comment in his recent annual meeting that the company plans to deploy 10,000 robots by the end of this year -- up from 1,382 at just three of its warehouses as of mid-2013 -- will replace enough workers to save up to $900 million a year, estimates analyst Shawn Milne, in a report to clients of Janney Capital Markets today. That will enable Amazon to lay off, or not hire, 25,000 workers at $14 an hour, plus healthcare and other benefit.
Nice, try...NOT!!!!
You ever work at amazon?
I have. Ex employee right here.
Their robot or kiva system does not do the work. Human hands are still needed to manifest such jobs. More robots aka kiva means more pods to the worker's station thus results in needing more human workers to manifest it.
More robots means expansion of the building to make room for more production workers. So who runs these kiva if they are down? Who runs around to pick up inventory if they fall out of them pods? Kiva can not run through products laying on the ground. They have sensors that stops production if that happens. To combat this, they must hire more amnesty aka kiva tech if there is an increase in the number of kiva bots.
With the amount of kiva bots they have, they already having issues of them running into one another. They get their instruction from the cloud and eats the bar code that is on the ground. After running over a few and due time, these bar codes get faded and it is like a red light that stays on green thus why the collision.
So with amazon, an increase in bots automation means more workers are needed to manifest the work order. More rooms will be needed to host these bots and more work stations are needed to fulfill them orders. More kiva techs will be needed as well. But first, get your order in because non of this would not happen if they are not making profit or if you do not order by a truck load. Cyber monday, their stocks fell by 2%