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Dec 9, 2016

Warehouses promised lots of jobs, but robot workforce slows hiring

Posted by in categories: employment, robotics/AI

Big corporations prefer robots to human employees.


It’s a sign of things to come.

In the last five years, online shopping has produced tens of thousands of new warehouse jobs in California, many of them in Riverside and San Bernardino counties. The bulk of them paid blue collar people decent wages to do menial tasks – putting things in boxes and sending them out to the world.

But automated machines and software have been taking up more and more space in the region’s warehouses, and taking over jobs that were once done by humans. Today, fewer jobs are being added, though some of them pay more.

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