Amazon says it’s a ‘myth’ that robots kill jobs. Here’s the reality | Benjamin Y Fong

Amazon has 750,000 robotics deployments today , up from 200,000 in 2020 .

Amazon fulfillment centers, where orders are picked and packaged, are key targets of automation deployments.

Delivery stations, where packages are loaded on to trucks, are not subject to the same robotics wizardry.

Amazon has bragged that warehouse automation has reduced costs by 25% .

The rapid reduction of human labor in fulfillment centers in the past two years is not, contrary to La Rovere’s insistence, a “myth”, nor is it an aberration. It is rather just the beginning of Amazon ’s great displacement. - Benjamin Y Fong is associate director of the Center for Work & Democracy at Arizona State University and keeps a newsletter on labor & logistics at ontheseams.substack.com..