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Amazon sees warehouse robots 'flattening' its hiring curve, according to internal document
An official company document describes Amazon's new Vulcan robot and similar machines as key to keeping a lid on hiring growth.
Amazon/Cover Images via Reuters Connect The company still plans to "have a lot of people for a long period of time," an Amazon spokesperson told BI, adding that many future roles would involve "higher-value tasks." "Since introducing robots within Amazon's operations, we've continued to hire hundreds of thousands of employees to work in our facilities and created many new job categories worldwide, including positions like flow control specialists, floor monitors, and reliability maintenance engineers." "We expect Amazon to continue to expand its warehouse network (to support growth) while also upgrading the footprint toward next-gen robotics in new builds and retrofits," Morgan Stanley analysts wrote in a research note earlier this year.
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