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Summary for ‘Warehouses promised lots of jobs, but’
The article ‘Ware houses promised lots of jobs, but robot workforce slows hiring’ is
published on Robot Nation by Natalie Kiroeff, Dec 4, 2016. The title of the article looks saying
that robots reduce the percentage of company hiring labor, but the author explains how robot
effect company on two ways – its advantage and disadvantage.
The article claims that the rate of using ‘robotic machines’ has reduced hiring from
company with example of Skechers’s warehouse and the company Amazon, it compared now
with six years ago and proved that Skechers’s company had hired 1,200 people, but now there is
just 550 people working at one ‘cavernous warehouse’ with computers and robotic machines.
Due to the study ‘Total jobs in October of each year’, the founding partner at Beacon Economics
Chris Thornberg telling people ‘The modern warehouse tends to be creating fewer jobs….
Automation is replacing the lowest-end jobs’.
However, the article also explains that there are fewer employments are accepted by
company, but there are some new jobs and some get higher paid. The company Amazon has
hired more 50,000 warehouse workers in the whole country and more than 30,000 robotic
machines. In fact, Amazon is a company that realizing the idea of ‘Automation Enterprise’, and
the companies that like Amazon are ‘more productive and richer’, because workers and robots
support each other and complete the working subjects faster than just human labor. Workers
Gonzalez and Madrid are good example in the article, due to the fact that they’ve studied and
known how to work with computers and robots, the daily work of Gonzalez and Madrid is
checking the system working fine and a set of scanners that tell them ‘how big of a box to use’.
And their works are easier than before. However, at the end of the article, the author claims the situation that human and robot
working together might being changed, because ‘ as robots get smarter and infiltrate new corners
of storage and shipping’.
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