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In China, a picture of how warehouse jobs can vanish
JD.com is an example of what companies may look like in the future of automation. This article talks about how their company, shipping 200,000 orders a day, operates in this new age.
Key findings
JD.com employs just four people that which service the machines that process and prepare over 200,000 orders a day.
JD.com is investing heavily in technology to reduce the cost of workers.
The overall goal in the move towards a fully automated system is to increase efficiency and reliability, not to reduce workers.
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