October 7, 2016
STILL A MINUTE TOO MUCH:
Amazon only needs a minute of human labor to ship your next package (Matt McFarland, October 6, 2016, CNN MOney)
With 22 years of experience in e-commerce and an obsession with efficiency, Amazon has brought remarkable optimization to the warehouses where it stores, packages and ships goods.On a typical Amazon (AMZN, Tech30) order, employees will spend about a minute total -- taking an item off the shelf, then boxing and shipping it.The rest of the work is done by robots and automated systems.
Posted by Orrin Judd at October 7, 2016 8:06 AM