I speak for myself and not my employer, past or present. More and more facilities are becoming robot centric. The only reason humans exist in the robot facilities is because they do something robots don't do well yet. Usually grabbing objects of varying shapes, sizes, and weights. It's unsurprising that these facilities are moving at such a pace that they're becoming increasingly dangerous and inhumane. I have, in th…
I also speak for myself, and there are tons of positions in my FC that don't involve robots at all. In the ship dock, we use conveyor belts, PIT machines, and pallet jacks. As you would imagine, it's quite crazy over there with tons of workers. But I wouldn't know how that area could be automated any further. Humans are needed to build pallets of packages and to build walls in trucks. Otherwise, we would lose money for just throwing the packages in the trucks.
>It's unsurprising that these facilities are moving at such a pace that they're becoming increasingly dangerous and inhumane.
I stowed previously for a year, and the pace increased when the new Nike systems were put in place. What that meant for me was that I could stow faster because I didn't need to scan the QR code on the bins I placed the items in. That alone took a couple seconds each time. I also saved my hands and wrists from injury by being able to use both hands when stowing the items. Before I handled them one handed with a scanner in the other hand. With these changes, I became one of the top stowers, and it was almost too easy after that.