Nowadays, the topic that Amazon uses more and more robots is playing a lot, and therefore, jobs are being lost at Jeff Bezos' company. However, it is not an absolute certainty. We take advantage of the issuance of Amazon's financial results to clarify this issue a bit according to the latest information, and that is, not only The robots that Amazon uses in its ships are not taking jobs away from people, but are also helping to make shipping costs cheaper and cheaper. We go there with the data that make this situation real.
We go there then with the data, and that is that in 2015 the company employed around 150.000 people, however, at the end of last year 2016, Amazon's human workforce already amounted to 341.000 employees. However, in 2016 the robot workforce also rose to 45.000, which also represents an increase of around 50% of the total number of robots. In other words, robots are collaborating not only in reducing costs, but in making it possible for the chain to continue growing and employing more and more humans. And it is easy to use fallacies, demagoguery and speak without data, that is why Amazon has come to the fore.
This is the summary that the medium Quartz has made it available to all. From this it follows that the use of robots is simplifying the work of packaging and shippingIn this way, those expenses that we like so much are reduced, and the reason why the Amazon Premium in Spain for example costs only € 20 per year. But Amazon's investment in robotics is still strong, in 2012 it bought Kiva Systems for no less than $ 775 million. We will see how this type of labor inclusion progresses over time.
Miguel Hernandez, what an irony of name ...
You talk about creating human employment at Amazon, that in relation to the growth of the company we could not call it job creation.
And it gives me the feeling that you have not stopped to think about the amount of employment that destroys in small and medium traditional commerce, but we go another thing is that Amazon Spain subsidizes the web or what do I know ...
The names and surnames are not ironic, they are names without more, and that is mine, the fruit of my ancestors, please show a little education.
It creates human employment at a rate of 50% per year, which is not bad at all. Human employment that could not simply grow without the use of robotic mechanisms.
The small and medium traditional business that does not know how to meet the needs of the current buyer is going to die, its executioner will be Amazon or any company. On the other hand, there are many SMEs that benefit from the platform to earn more money and sell more, entrepreneurs who renew themselves and bet on the future. Amazon does not subsidize us anything that I know of. However, my article has official data, your comment of fallacies and ignorance.
Likewise, you have the technique to create 350.000 jobs, satisfy SMEs and the incipient growth in Spain of electronic sales (4 out of 10 buyers). I am waiting for you to pass that formula to us to patent it.
Kind regards and thanks for reading 😉