Amazon is desperate for human labor. An article in the Wall Street Journal noted how the company is short-circuiting and reinventing its training process as it works feverishly to place hosts of seasonal workers in its fulfillment centers.
Being a rapidly growing beast in online commerce presents two challenges. First, Amazon is growing rapidly on a secular basis — the company’s sales are rising at an annual rate of more than 25 percent. So it constantly needs to add new warehouses, and new people to staff them. And while those facilities are highly automated, there is a limit to what robots and machines can do. Amazon already has about 300,000 people staffing its 149 warehouses around the world.
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