Amazon offers to help its employees quit their jobs to launch delivery companies [www.digitalcommerce360.com]
Amazon rolling out package-packing machines that could automate warehouse jobs [www.geekwire.com]
Amazon's New Robot Can Pack More Than 600 Boxes Per Hour [www.extremetech.com]
Amazon to Roll Out Automated Packing Machines, Offers $10k for Employees to Become Gig Workers [gizmodo.com]
Amazon is replacing order packers with machines that are five times more efficient [www.techspot.com]
Exclusive: Amazon rolls out machines that pack orders and replace jobs [www.reuters.com]
Amazon Reportedly Increasing Automated Boxing Machine Presence, Replacing Warehouse Jobs [www.iphoneincanada.ca]
Amazon could replace some of its warehouse workers with robots [mashable.com]
Amazon reportedly uses boxing machines to replace people [www.cnet.com]
Amazon offers employees $10K and 3 months’ pay to start their own delivery businesses [techcrunch.com]
Employees Turned Entrepreneurs: New Amazon Initiative Helps Employees Start Their Own Package Delivery Business [www.businesswire.com]
Amazon, eager for drivers, offers to help employees quit to start delivery businesses [www.chicagotribune.com]
Amazon to provide up to $10,000 for employees to start new delivery businesses [www.marketwatch.com]
Amazon offers employees thousands of pounds to set up delivery firms [www.telegraph.co.uk]
Worth noting that a lot of the warehouse automation Amazon is adding at this point comes from 3rd party providers. It's hardly just Big Orange rolling this out -- tech like automated box packers is being used by everyone https://t.co/zd4SxU75EO
— Christopher Mims ? (@mims) May 13, 2019
So we’re about 30-50 years out from takes about how great Amazon warehouse jobs were, and how the loss of those jobs destroyed the American family. Good to know https://t.co/Fk4DavVhkR
— Irenist?????? (@1renist) May 13, 2019
Perhaps a diff headline.. AMZN tests tech that makes packages smaller with less overall cardboard waste...For all this fear of lost jobs the #1 issue for most of us is finding enough people to fill the jobs we have and the new ones we are creating... https://t.co/uHIfUcm6AF
— Dave Clark (@davehclark) May 13, 2019
This is Amazon's best bet for profitable automation.
— Karthik ??♂️ (@AntarYaami) May 13, 2019
Much like self-driving cars are the best bet for Uber/Lyft. https://t.co/dwIFQ2JyGD
Good luck with your unionization or wage strikes. https://t.co/nnhaXTiMVL
— [Harm To Ongoing Matter] Drogen (@LDrogen) May 13, 2019
Amazon is offering to help its employees quit their jobs to launch delivery companies. https://t.co/VtzgFTCCah
— Zak Stambor (@ByZakStambor) May 13, 2019
The Shape of the Future: Amazon rolls out machines that pack orders and replace jobs https://t.co/NyHPwfOEEi
— Subhash Kak (@subhashkak1) May 13, 2019
Amazon prepares to replace American workers with imported machines. I mean, there's more to it but that's basically what people will hear. https://t.co/e4MFTCbUeT
— John Sinclair Foley (@johnsfoley) May 13, 2019
Scoop: @Amazon is starting to automate a job that thousands of its workers perform - boxing up customer orders. How, and why? Read this thread. https://t.co/Ixp6stwVDu
— Jeffrey Dastin (@JLDastin) May 13, 2019
Amazon rolls out machines that pack orders and replace jobs https://t.co/z0mUJ19EQI
— Nathan Stolpman (@lifttheveil411) May 13, 2019
Amazon quietly rolls out robots to pack orders https://t.co/oFXOOoksFs $AMZN pic.twitter.com/Mi5VgLoa1p
— Reuters Business (@ReutersBiz) May 13, 2019
Exclusive: Amazon rolls out machines that pack orders and replace jobs https://t.co/5Ol4VqaQeF
— Moshe Vardi (@vardi) May 13, 2019
Exclusive: Amazon rolls out machines that pack orders and replace jobs https://t.co/DHiMzxoxo2 @JLDastin shows that resistance is futile.
— chrisplumb (@chrisplumb) May 13, 2019
Immigrants don't replace jobs. Machines do.
— Anne Ω? (@relevanne) May 13, 2019
Reuters exclusive: "Amazon Inc is rolling out machines to automate a job held by thousands of its workers."https://t.co/mqblOzlwBa
"Amazon has considered installing two machines at dozens more warehouses, removing at least 24 [jobs per robot] at each one"
— Paul Kedrosky (@pkedrosky) May 13, 2019
Amazon rolls out machines that pack orders and replace jobs https://t.co/wtJ5DB5gHI
Whoa >>
— John Koetsier (@johnkoetsier) May 13, 2019
Amazon offers employees $10K and 3 months’ pay to start their own delivery businesses https://t.co/YWygJ7A0Nb
Amazon offers employees $10K and 3 months’ pay to start their own delivery businesses | TechCrunch https://t.co/BIQtDbCE37
— RR Apple (@RRalstonAgile) May 13, 2019
Amazon, eager for drivers, offers to help employees quit to start delivery businesses@karenhunter #KarenRebels https://t.co/MiJnWFmy1C
— SiriusXM Urban View (@SXMUrbanView) May 13, 2019
"Amazon to provide up to $10,000 for employees to start new delivery businesses" https://t.co/Y4xEbRrWS7
— Eddy Elfenbein (@EddyElfenbein) May 13, 2019
Coincidentally or not, Amazon also announced this morning that it was launching a new program to encourage some existing Amazon warehouse employees to quit and start their own businesses delivering Amazon goods.
— AdventureRich (@adventure_rich) May 14, 2019
Until they automate that too..#Automation https://t.co/PbobwjdD6q
Amazon to Roll Out Automated Packing Machines, Offers $10k for Employees to Become Gig Workers#FreedomDividend #Yang2020
— Joseph Patrick (@JoeyGDNBoss) May 13, 2019
https://t.co/ktJdQAXNwm via @gizmodo
Every #YangGang member should read this story and pass it on. https://t.co/H4QMqOnqYi @AndrewYang @Zach_Graumann
— Exo ????????♂️? (@8xogenesis) May 13, 2019
Exclusive: Amazon rolls out machines that pack orders and replace jobs https://t.co/ReCg5Jcgl2
— Holger Mueller (@holgermu) May 14, 2019
WATCH: Amazon quietly rolls out robots to pack orders https://t.co/oFXOOoksFs $AMZN pic.twitter.com/LdSOqVvVaY
— Reuters Business (@ReutersBiz) May 14, 2019
Exclusive: Amazon rolls out machines that pack orders and replace jobs https://t.co/FrexyFSSS6
— Ed Hidalgo (@EdHidalgoSD) May 14, 2019
WATCH: Amazon is rolling out machines to automate a job held by thousands of its workers: boxing up customer orders. https://t.co/oFXOOo2RgS $AMZN pic.twitter.com/F62z6dwr9t
— Reuters Business (@ReutersBiz) May 14, 2019
WATCH: Amazon is rolling out machines to automate a job held by thousands of its workers https://t.co/oFXOOoksFs $AMZN pic.twitter.com/SK1jUiuxdy
— Reuters Business (@ReutersBiz) May 14, 2019
Amazon is trialling new packing machines in its warehouses, the CartonWrap from Italian firm CMC. They pack 600 to 700 boxes per hour - four to five times the rate of a human packer.
— Calum Chace (@cccalum) May 13, 2019
Still early days, but "lights-out" warehouses are coming.https://t.co/FLOXcuPgId
Amazon offering workers $10K to start a delivery business sounds like the first step toward productizing last-mile logistics just like they productized their infrastructure as AWShttps://t.co/63b6kY03iG
— Brandon Mills (@brandontmills) May 14, 2019
Amazon offers employees $10K and 3 months’ pay to start their own delivery businesses https://t.co/UVprrj19b2 in @TechCrunch pic.twitter.com/FXuC7DS830
— HealthIT Policy (@HITpol) May 13, 2019
#アマゾン、従業員にアマゾンを補完する運送事業の起業を奨励。始めてもいずれアマゾンに潰されそうな‥。
— 兼松雄一郎(日本経済新聞) (@kanematsuyui) May 13, 2019
これまでの事業展開を見てくると「自らの棺桶を掘らせている」という風に言われても仕方ない気はする。https://t.co/q2KUvUblOa
What a cool way to spur on delivery! Here’s hoping the new businesses work out for everyone that takes them up on it!https://t.co/0sqEpV3boA
— Braxton Carter (@braxtoncarter) May 13, 2019
Amazon offers employees $10K and 3 months’ pay to start their own delivery businesses – TechCrunch https://t.co/2tOcznuHIX
— Ada Tsang (@adatsangTO) May 13, 2019
That’s a very clever way to trim your workforce. https://t.co/hBwSO9TvdT
— Grady Booch (@Grady_Booch) May 13, 2019