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Amazon is hiring fewer workers this holiday season, a sign that robots are replacing them
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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 3812598" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="https://qz.com/1449634/amazons-reduced-holiday-hiring-is-a-bad-sign-for-human-workers/" target="_blank"><strong>Amazon is hiring fewer workers this holiday season, a sign that robots are replacing them - Quartz</strong></a></p><p></p><p>Amazon is staffing up for the holiday rush with around 100,000 additional hires. As big as that number sounds, it’s actually fewer people than the e-commerce giant added in either the 2016 or 2017 holiday seasons, when it brought in 120,000 additional workers.</p><p></p><p>Citi analyst Mark May says he thinks the reduction in seasonal hiring is strong evidence that Amazon is succeeding with plans to automate operations in its warehouses.</p><p></p><p>“We’ve seen an acceleration in the use of robots within their fulfillment centers, and that has corresponded with fewer and fewer workers that they’re hiring around the holidays,” May <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/02/citi-mark-may-amazon-relies-on-robots-less-temporary-holiday-hires.html" target="_blank">told CNBC</a> on Nov. 2. He added that 2018 is the “first time on record” Amazon plans to hire fewer holiday workers than it did the previous year.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 3812598, member: 1"] [URL='https://qz.com/1449634/amazons-reduced-holiday-hiring-is-a-bad-sign-for-human-workers/'][B]Amazon is hiring fewer workers this holiday season, a sign that robots are replacing them - Quartz[/B][/URL] Amazon is staffing up for the holiday rush with around 100,000 additional hires. As big as that number sounds, it’s actually fewer people than the e-commerce giant added in either the 2016 or 2017 holiday seasons, when it brought in 120,000 additional workers. Citi analyst Mark May says he thinks the reduction in seasonal hiring is strong evidence that Amazon is succeeding with plans to automate operations in its warehouses. “We’ve seen an acceleration in the use of robots within their fulfillment centers, and that has corresponded with fewer and fewer workers that they’re hiring around the holidays,” May [URL='https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/02/citi-mark-may-amazon-relies-on-robots-less-temporary-holiday-hires.html']told CNBC[/URL] on Nov. 2. He added that 2018 is the “first time on record” Amazon plans to hire fewer holiday workers than it did the previous year. [/QUOTE]
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