Re:Amazon raises minimum wage to $15 for all US employees
by onemoresoop on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @12:04PM
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Perhaps they raised minimum wages with the future goal to lay off staff that can be "robotized". After that the remaining workers would certainly have a higher load of dealing with the robots and would most likely not be willing to work for less than $15/h. This can also can earn amazon a good guy reputation so that their future move can be justified. I hope i'm wrong but my instinct tells me that Amazon will not loose a cent on this move.
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Re:Amazon raises minimum wage to $15 for all US employees
by dv_dt on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @12:23PM
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Future staff that can be robotized would be laid off no matter what their pay. Or maybe I should say within a wide band of salaries as I doubt that 10-12 vs 15/hr makes much of a difference on that balance. But I don't think all workers would be eliminated within a warehouse, and I can't estimate if the remaining jobs will be higher load or lower load physically.