The report finds that Amazon workers in robotic warehouses feel more isolated at work, which makes it difficult to unionize.

Amazon’s use of AI and robotics in its warehouses isolates workers and negatively impacts union organizing drives, a new report finds.

The report, conducted by Oxford University research team Fairwork and the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence, aimed to explain how AI impacts warehouse workers by interviewing employees at robotic Amazon warehouses in the U.K.

  • B0rax@feddit.de
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    5 months ago

    They try to make the job as easy as possible, so no training is required and literally anybody could do the work. That way they don’t need any skilled labor at all. Basically just any warm body.