[Crimson Dynamo]

Id imagine 5 years they will employ 50% less staff due to automation advances

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Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

Id imagine 5 years they will employ 50% less staff due to automation advances

They said this about th'bookies as well, it never materialised, in that way anyway. Yes some full closures due to online, but the "machines replacing shop staff"? The truth of it is, they break or have issues so often that they need just as many staff as they did before the machines existed.

In truth, I don't think Amazon will be able to make machines that can pick & pack as efficiently as a human workforce, certainly not one that's paid peanuts. You not only have to build the machines, but the warehouse also has to be hyper-organised in a way that machines can understand without making constant errors.