Robots Alone Can't Solve Amazon's Labor Woes

Robots Alone Can't Solve Amazon's Labor Woes

5 years ago
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https://www.wired.com/story/robots-alone-cant-solve-amazons-labor-woes/

Today is Prime Day, that time of year when shoppers swarm Amazon’s discounted digital shelves. A few days later all that stuff will show up at your door, as if by capitalistic magic. But it’s not magic—it’s the product of an army of human packers in warehouses.

And some of those workers are angry. Amazon warehouse employees in Minnesota plan on striking today, demanding better working conditions and less intense productivity quotas. In a photo published by Bloomberg last week, the workers held a sign reading: “We Are Humans, Not Robots!”