Amazon soars to more than 341K employees, adding 110K people in a single year

Re:Amazon soars to more than 341K employees, adding 110K peo... by ars on Friday February 03, 2017 @01:19PM (#13561895)

You are thinking of retail as cashiers, because that's what you see.

But a lot of retail jobs involve the stockroom with heavy boxes and crates, and a lot of bending and lifting to put products on shelves.

And much of Amazon jobs involve retrieving lightweight items from shelves to put in a bin.

The jobs are not that different.

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Re:Amazon soars to more than 341K employees, adding 110K peo... by cr0sh on Friday February 03, 2017 @01:34PM (#13562018)

> And much of Amazon jobs involve retrieving lightweight items from shelves to put in a bin.

Haven't they transitioned all their warehouses to the model where the person stays stationary, and robots bring product to the person? Or is that only in selected warehouses?

That's not to say standing in one position is any better or less stressful (might even be more so, if you've ever seen videos of the robots in action on the floor).

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Re:Amazon soars to more than 341K employees, adding 110K peo... by ars on Friday February 03, 2017 @02:33PM (#13562532)

From the videos I've seen, different warehouses do different things.

I think that packing the shipping boxes is still all manual in all the warehouses.

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