New research shows that the received wisdom that automation destroys manual jobs in warehouses is wrong. In fact, automation represents a virtuous circle of warehouse job creation: more advanced warehouse automation results in quicker and more efficient eCommerce fulfillment, leading to greater demand for online orders and thus greater demand for warehousing. Though automation will displace some manual warehouse jobs, it will, for the foreseeable future, certainly create more manual jobs than it displaces.
This whitepaper is a joint collaboration between Plus One Robotics – a San Antonio-based specialist in vision software for logistics robots; and global market research firm Interact Analysis – the world’s leading authority on supply chain automation markets and trends.
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