Since 2014, Amazon has touted the efficiency and safety benefits of its new automated fulfillment centers where robots assist human workers in processing packages. But it turns out automation may be doing far more harm to the company’s employees than Amazon has led the public and lawmakers to believe. In a new report , the Center for Investigative Reporting’s Reveal publication found that between 2016 and 2019, the rate at which Amazon employees sustained serious injuries was 50 percent higher at warehouses where the company has robots that at ones where it does not.
Those facilities have among the highest […]
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