Amazon plans to remove or replace 500,000 jobs with robots in the US which is going to happen over period of the next 10 years so. The whole target is to ensure that there is reduction in cost, increase in efficiency and also create a technical improvement but it also raise this concerns about about the future of how the traditional work will look like.
Amazon is one of the largest employers in the United States but it is preparing for a major shift as it see how the warehouses would be used to work according to the internal documents ciruclated inside the company also interviews which have been givento New York Times. There is news that the companies intending to replace more than half a million jobs with robot over the next 10 years . Amazon has grown rapidly now it is around 1.2 million employees but the company believe that automation with lead to not higher more than 160000 additional people by 2027.
This is going to save around 30%. Executive say that the robot system is going to take care of the work the companies also testing this approach to handle heavy lifts, packaging goods movement by the robots for example emergence facility in Shreveport, Louisiana, is already using 1000 robots. plans are in place to duplicate model in more than 40 facility in 2027 which is including Virginia beach and all the facility in robotics with humans rather than 100% replacement the company is also calling them advance technology .
Amazon says robots are means to create new and higher paid technique jobs like robotics technicians rather than eliminating the ones which are existing roles at severe port over under 50 people work in robotics technicians earning around 25 dollars per hour while otherwise workers around get around 19.5 usd. Experts expect that this proportionately affect the blue colour jobs and community of colour as Amazon warehouse employes huge number of black workers while the company has said it does not plan to remove them.
In short Amazon is planning to move to a highly automated system where robots will save cost, improve the efficiency while this may create new technical jobs it definitely raises important questions about the future of traditional wear house work and the people who are dependent on it
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