Photo credit: Amazon’s Kiva robot in action Robots have been pegged as major threats to retail jobs—however, the concern could be more overblown than previously thought.
While headlines continue to tout retail’s demise, automation’s role in creating more, higher salary jobs has been largely overlooked, The Wall Street Journal reported . The popularity of robots has led to an uptick in e-commerce jobs over the past few years, since companies are looking to innovate and hire more people to fulfill consumer demands.
Even though brick-and-mortar store closures are rampant, e-commerce tycoons, like Amazon, have offset job loss with their high-tech fulfillment […]
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